caa a22 4500 445386401 CHVBK 20180317143033.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10714-011-1237-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10714-011-1237-z Saulson Peter Department of Physics, Syracuse University, 13244, Syracuse, NY, USA aut Josh Goldberg and the physical reality of gravitational waves [Elektronische Daten] [Peter Saulson] In this article, I pay tribute to the contributions made by Josh Goldberg toward our understanding that gravitational waves are genuine physical predictions of general relativity. Josh played a central role in developing our understanding of how a binary star system generates gravitational waves. Another key contribution came through his patronage of the 1957 Chapel Hill Conference, in his role as funding officer for the Air Force's support of research in gravitation. I examine in detail the discussion at the Chapel Hill Conference, and show how the question of the reality of gravitational waves was resolved by a recognition that one could, in principle, construct a detector for such waves. I trace the implications of this resolution in the work of Joseph Weber, who attended the Chapel Hill Conference, and of Rainer Weiss, who did not attend but who carefully studied the key paper that Felix Pirani presented there. I conclude with a brief discussion of how a few minor remaining puzzles were resolved some years later. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Gravitational waves nationallicence Quadrupole formula nationallicence General Relativity and Gravitation Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 43/12(2011-12-01), 3289-3299 0001-7701 43:12<3289 2011 43 10714 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-011-1237-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-011-1237-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Saulson Peter Department of Physics, Syracuse University, 13244, Syracuse, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- General Relativity and Gravitation Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 43/12(2011-12-01), 3289-3299 0001-7701 43:12<3289 2011 43 10714 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer