My reading has gotten quite erratic recently, so it felt great to actually finish one book from cover to cover. Book in question, Janna Levin's Black hole blues and other songs from outer space. It's about the gravitational wave detection that happened at LIGO last year, along with the history leading upto it, and what exactly was found and why it matters. It's an easy read, more lyrical than technical, and more of a narrative than systematic exposition. I enjoyed reading it, and as my popular science reading has leaned mostly towards the theoretical, it was good to get a glimpse of the experimental.
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