Finding the Gravitational Wave: A History of Discovery Written in Software
P. Couvares, Kate Keahey, Frédérique Marion · SoftwareX · 2021
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that at the heart of every discovery in gravitational physics is ripe fruit colliding with people’s heads. The unacknowledged reality is somewhat different: as our understanding of the universe has evolved, we need to dig deeper for insight — this means that today’s process of discovery is often long and laborious, requires a diversity of expertise, and has to be extracted through the creation and use of specialized discovery tools: scientific instruments.