Einstein’s Unfinished Symphony: Listening to the sounds of space-time
by Marcia Bartusiak, Joseph Henry Press, £17.95, ISBN 0309069874
FANCY a gamble of the grandest kind? At the California Institute of
Technology there’s a corridor in which hangs a row of 10 framed letters. Each is
a bet between an eminent physicist and Kip Thorne, occupant of an office on the
corridor. Thorne is one of the world’s leading experts on Einstein’s theory of
general relativity, but he’s modest enough to admit that on one topic he has
unfailingly backed the wrong horse.
Back in 1978, Thorne bet the Italian physicist…
