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| January 01, 2001 | Miller, Ryder W. | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Einstein's Unfinished Symphony: Listening to the Sounds of Space-Time Marcia Bartusiak, Joseph Henry Press, Washington D.C., 2000, 249 pp., $24.95.

Sound pollution, seismic activity, and garbage trucks rumbling down the highway -- these are the challenges for a new generation of scientists as they gear up to listen for gravitational waves created by cosmic disturbances among the stars.

With fancy new lasers and optics, researchers will be trying to detect gravity waves (short for gravitational waves) -- subtle ripples in the fabric of space-time that Albert Einstein predicted would result from the movements of massive celestial bodies. To date, these expansions and contractions of space-time, a key element of Einstein's general theory of relativity, have not been detected directly. But scientists remain…

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