Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tilman Sauer
Veranstaltungsart: online: Hauptseminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Credits: 5,0
Unterrichtssprache: Deutsch
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Inhalt: On September 14, 2015, the LIGO cooperation detected, for the time, gravitational waves. The discovery was announced on Februar 11, 2016, and immediately was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2017. It so happened that this first direct observation of gravitational waves happened almost exactly 100 years after Einstein's publiction of his general theory of relavity. In this seminar, we will study various aspects of the discovery and the history of the search for gravitational waves. The title of the seminar is taken from a recent book with the same title, ed. by Jed Buchwald, Princeton University Press, 2020. The book collects contributions on the physics of gravitational waves by Kip Thorne and Barry Barish as well as further chapters on the discovery and significance of gravitational waves but also on the sociological, historical, and philosophical aspects of this significant event in the history of science.
Empfohlene Literatur: Jed Z. Buchwald, ed. Einstein Was Right. The Science and History of Gravitational Waves, Princeton University Press, 2020.
Digitale Lehre: The seminar will be held online or in hybrid format in several blocks on dates tbd.
