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Explore one of the biggest scientific mysteries of our time, the Pioneer Anomaly: Within the 1980s, NASA researchers detected an unidentified force acting on the spacecraft Pioneer 10, the first man-made subject to quest through the asteroid belt and review Jupiter, eventually going out of the solar system. Nobody seemed able to agree on a cause. (Dark subject? Tensor-vector-scalar gravity? Collisions with gravitons?) What performed seem clear to those who became obsessed with it was that the Pioneer Anomaly possessed the to upend Einstein and Newton - to change everything we know about the universe. With riveting prose and the detail of a specialist, Konstantin Kakaes gives us a methodical police procedural, monitoring the steps of these who wanted to unravel this high-stakes enigma. His thrilling consideration draws on intensive interviews and archival research, following the tale from the Anomaly's preliminary discovery, through generations of tireless analysis, to its ultimate realization. The Pioneer Detectives is a definitive consideration not merely of the Pioneer Anomaly but of how methodical knowledge gets made and unmade, with researchers sometimes putting their livelihoods on the line in search of cosmic truth. Ideal for admirers of John McPhee, Thomas Kuhn, and Ed McBain, this is also an hugely enjoyable tale accessible to anyone who is in love with brilliant, interesting long-form journalism.
