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pp. 256, includes black and white illustrations and a black and white photo section. This book deals with “the most startling consequence of the general theory of relativity: the prediction of gravitational radiation, ripples in the fabric of space-time itself.” The winner of the American Institute of Physics Science Writting Award., paperback editionIn a handful of observatories around the world, scientists are waiting, and listening. Their quest: to be the first to detect gravitational waves, infinitesimal quakes that stretch and compress space-time and could add a brand-new dimension to our universal knowledge-allowing us to hear a sun going supernova, black holes colliding, and perhaps one day, the remnant rumble of the Big Bang itself…