Gravity's Ghost Scientific Discovery in the Twenty-first Century

Here, Collins reveals that scientific discovery and nondiscovery turn on scientific traditions and rivalries. that secure statistical analysis rests on impossible procedures and unattainable knowledge, and that fact in one place is baseless assumption in another. He also argues that sciences like gravitational wave detection, in exemplifying how the intractable is to be handled, can offer scientific leadership a moral beacon for the twenty-first century. In the end, Gravity's Ghost is a dramatic scientific mystery with a completely unexpected conclusion. --Book Jacket.