John Moffat is a theoretical physicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. For most of his career, he was Professor of Physics at the University of Toronto, supervising graduate students towards their PhD degrees and teaching undergraduate and graduate physics courses. Moffat is best known for his research in gravitation, astrophysics, astronomy, cosmology, and particle physics. In these diverse fields, he has proposed numerous alternative theories to the prevailing ones. In 1953, Albert Einstein personally, though perhaps unintentionally, opened doors for Moffat in the field by introducing him to other well-known physicists. This led him to Trinity College, Cambridge University, and a PhD without an undergraduate degree. To date, Moffat has published over 300 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, and he is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. His most recent book, Cracking the Particle Code of the Universe, published in 2014.
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Prologue: LIGO
Chapter 1. Gravitation and Black Holes
Chapter 2. Thermodynamics, Quantum Physics, and Black Holes
Chapter 3. Stars and Black Holes
Chapter 4. Early Observations of Black Holes
Chapter 5. Wormholes, Time Travel, and Other Exotic Theories
Chapter 6. Origins of Gravitational Waves and Detectors
Chapter 7. The Biggest Ears in the Sky: LIGO
Chapter 8. LIGO/ Virgo Listens to Neutron Stars
Chapter 9. Alternative Gravitational Theories
Chapter 10. The Biggest Eyes in the Sky: The EHT
Further Reading
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