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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments Common Acronyms in Gravitational Wave Research | |
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| Introduction Two Kinds of Space-Time | |
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| A La Recherche Des Ondes Perdues | |
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| The Start of a New Science | |
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| From Idea to Experiment | |
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| What Are Gravitational Waves? | |
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| The First Published | |
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| The Reservoir of Doubt | |
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| The First Experiments by Others | |
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| Joe Weber's Findings Begin to Be Rejected in the Constitutive Forum | |
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| Joe Weber Fights Back | |
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| The Consensus Is Formed | |
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| An Attempt to Break the Regress: The Calibration of Experiments | |
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| Forgotten Waves | |
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| How Waves Spread | |
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| Two New Technologies | |
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| The Start of Cryogenics | |
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| Nautilus | |
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| Nautilus, November 1996 to June 1998 | |
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| The Spheres | |
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| The Start of Interferometry | |
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| Caltech Enters the Game | |
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| Bar wars | |
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| The Science of the Life after Death of Room-Temperature Bars | |
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| Scientific Institutions and Life after Death | |
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| Room-Temperature Bars and the Policy Regress | |
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| Scientific Cultures | |
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| Resonant Technology and the National Science Foundation Review | |
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| Ripples and Conferences | |
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| Three More Conferences and a Funeral | |
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| The Downtrodden Masses | |
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| The Funding of LIGO and Its Consequences | |
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| The Interferometers And The Interferometeers-From Small Science To Big Science | |
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| Moving Technology: What Is in a Large Interferometer? | |
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| Moving Earth: The Sites | |
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| Moving People: From Small Science to Big Science | |
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| The Beginning of Coordinated Science | |
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| The Drever Affair | |
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| The End of the Skunk Works | |
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| Regime 3: The Coordinators | |
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| Mechanism versus Magic | |
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| The 40-Meter Team versus the New Management, Continued | |
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| Regime 4 (and 5): The Collaboration | |
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| Becoming A New Science | |
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| Pooling Data: Prospects and Problems | |
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| International Collaboration among the Interferometer Groups | |
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| When Is Science? The Meaning of Upper Limits | |
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| Science, Scientists, And Sociology | |
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| Coming On Air: The Study and Science | |
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| Methodology as the Meeting of Two Cultures: The Study, Scientists, and the Public | |
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| Final Reflections: The Study and Sociology | |
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| Joe Weber: A Personal and Methodological Note 000 Coda: January 2004 | |
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| Appendices | |
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| What Is Small? | |
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| Gravitational Waves, Gravitational Radiation, and Gravity Waves: A Note on Terminology | |
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| Roger Babson's Essay, "Gravity-Our Enemy Number One" | |
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| 1 Colonial Cringe | |
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| 1 The Method | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |