Observing gravitational waves would yield an enormous amount of information about the phenomena of strong-field gravity. If we could detect black holes… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
The waves from all the different parts of a sphere would cancel each other out. You need motion that's nonspherical. — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
We know about black holes and neutron stars, but we hope there are other phenomena we can see because of the gravitational… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
Every time you accelerate - say by jumping up and down - you're generating gravitational waves. — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
It's very, very exciting that it worked out in the end that we are actually detecting things and actually adding to the… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
You know the Einstein waves can be thought of as a distortion of space and time. But the way we see it,… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
The waves travel with the velocity of light and slightly squeeze and stretch space transverse to the direction of their motion. The… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
The students on my course were fascinated by the idea that gravitational waves might exist. I didn't know much about them at… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
I didn't understand the Weber bar and how gravitational waves interacted with it. I sat and thought about it over a weekend,… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
Space is much stiffer than you imagine; it's stiffer than a gigantic piece of iron. That's why it's taken so damned long… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
Gravitational waves, because they are so imperturbable - they go through everything - they will tell you the most information you can get about… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share
The waves travel with the velocity of light and slightly squeeze and stretch space transverse to the direction of their motion. The first waves… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share
Experimentally, we now have demonstrated that Einstein's theory is right in strong gravitational fields. That's important to a lot of people. — Rainer Weiss Copy Share
You think Earth's gravity is really something when you're climbing the stairs. But, as far as physics goes, it is a pipsqueak, infinitesimal, tiny… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share
We've seen black holes, which is already wonderful. We also expect to see the merger of neutron stars, and that was a thing that… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share
We know about black holes and neutron stars, but we hope there are other phenomena we can see because of the gravitational waves they… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share
We were looking almost one-tenth of the way to the edge of the universe. We're planning to use the facilities we have to make… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share
It's very, very exciting that it worked out in the end that we are actually detecting things and actually adding to the knowledge, through… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share
For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books and science… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share
The whole idea of gravity curling up space, that is the epitome of what is going on in a black hole. I would've loved… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share
The obvious thing to me was, let's take freely floating masses in space and measure the time it takes light to travel between them.… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share
All at once, funding was gone due to the Mansfield Amendment, which was a reaction to the Vietnam War. In the minds of the… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share
My father was a dictator in the true German sense. He suppressed my mother. — Rainer Weiss Copy Share
By the time we made the discovery in 2015, the National Science Foundation had put close to $1.1 billion into it. — Rainer Weiss Copy Share
