Janna Levin

Kurt Godel's Incompleteness Theorems sent shivers through Vienna's intellectual circles and directly challenged Ludwig Wittgenstein's dominant philosophy. Alan Turing's mathematical genius helped him break the Nazi Enigma Code during WWII. Though they never met, their lives strangely mirrored one another—both were brilliant, and both met with tragic ends. Here, a mysterious narrator intertwines these parallel lives into a double helix of genius and anguish, wonderfully capt.

En 1916, Einstein predijo la existencia de ondas gravitacionales, su máxima prioridad después de proponer su teoría del espacio-tiempo curvo. Un siglo después, estamos grabando los primeros sonidos del espacio, evidencia de la existencia de las ondas causadas por la colision de dos agujeros negros. Es la banda sonora que acompaña a la pelicula muda de la astronomia. Janna Levin relata la ambicion experimental que comenzo como un divertido experimento mental y se convirtio en objeto de obsesion para los arquitectos originales de la idea: Rai Weiss, Kip Thorne y Ron Drever. Cinco decadas despues de soñar el experimento, el equipo se afana por interceptar un sonido con dos colosales maquinas, con la esperanza de tener exito a tiempo para el centenario de la idea mas radical de Einstein.

The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO, one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history.Travel around the world 100 billion times. A strong gravitational wave will briefly change that distance by less than the thickness of a human hair. We have perhaps less than a few tenths of a second to perform this measurement. And we don''t know if this infinitesimal event will come next month, next year or perhaps in thirty years.In 1916 Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves: miniscule ripples in the very fabric of spacetime generated by unfathomably powerful events. If such vibrations could somehow be recorded, we could observe our universe for the first time through sound: the hissing of the Big Bang, the whale-like tunes of collapsing stars, the low tones of merging galaxies, the drumbeat of two black holes collapsing into one. For decades, astrophysicists have searched for a way of doing soIn 2016 a team of hundreds of scientists at work on a billion-dollar experiment made history when they announced the first ever detection of a gravitational wave, confirming Einstein''s prediction. This is their story, and the story of the most sensitive scientific instrument ever made: LIGO.Based on complete access to LIGO and the scientists who created it, Black Hole Blues provides a firsthand account of this astonishing achievement: a compelling, intimate portrait of cutting-edge science at its most awe-inspiring and ambitious.

From one of our most eminent theoretical astrophysicists and an award-winning writer, a fascinating, firsthand history of the scientific pursuit to detect gravitational waves: the holy grail of modern cosmology, the soundtrack of the universe.In 1916, Einstein became the first to predict the existence of gravitational waves: sounds without a material medium generated by the unfathomably energy-producing collision of black holes. Now Janna Levin, herself an astrophysicist, recounts the story of the search over the last fifty years for these elusive waves--a quest that has culminated in the creation of the most expensive project ever funded by the National Science Foundation ($1 billion-plus). She makes clear how the waves are created in the cosmic collision of black holes, and why the waves can never be detected by telescope.And, most revealingly, she delves into the lives and fates of the four scientists currently engaged in--and obsessed with--discerning this soundtrack of the universe''s history. Levin''s account of the surprises, disappointments, achievements, and risks of this unfolding story provides us with a uniquely compelling and intimate portrait of the people and processes of modern science.

Written as a series of unsent letters to her mother, Janna Levin's book explains the workings of the universe as they engage both the mind and the heart.

«Somos la progenie del cosmos, y nuestra capacidad para entenderlo es un legado». Partiendo de ahí, Janna Levin ha escrito Cómo le salieron las manchas al universo en forma de cartas a Sandy Levin («

La aclamada física y divulgadora científica Janna Levin nos presenta una guía accesible al fenómeno más extraño y fascinante del universo: los agujeros negros. Embarquémonos en una exploración emocionante, recreando como seria la brutal experiencia de enfrentarnos a un agujero negro, revelando la importancia crucial de estos habitantes oscuros del cosmos en la creacion de las galaxias y en la expansion del universo que habitamos. Como sobrevivir a un agujero negro no solo es didactico e ilumina- dor, tambien atrapara al lector desde la primera a la ultima linea gracias a la arrebatadora sensibilidad literaria de su autora. Todo ello ilustrado por el original trabajo de la pintora y fotografa norteamericana Lia Halloran.

En 1916, Einstein predijo la existencia de ondas gravitacionales, su máxima prioridad después de proponer su teoría del espacio-tiempo curvo. Un siglo después, estamos grabando los primeros sonidos del espacio, evidencia de la existencia de las ondas causadas por la colision de dos agujeros negros. Es la banda sonora que acompaña a la pelicula muda de la astronomia.Janna Levin relata la ambicion experimental que comenzo como un divertido experimento mental y se convirtio en objeto de obsesion para los arquitectos originales de la idea: Rai Weiss, Kip Thorne y Ron Drever. Cinco decadas despues de soñar el experimento, el equipo se afana por interceptar un sonido con dos colosales maquinas, con la esperanza de tener exito a tiempo para el centenario de la idea mas radical de Einstein.