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Rainer Weiss

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Rainer Weiss was a German-American physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. He was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an adjunct professor at Louisiana State University. He is best known for inventing the laser interferome

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The students on my course were fascinated by the idea that gravitational waves might exist. I didn't know much about them at…

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It's a spectacular signal. It's a signal many of us have wanted to observe since the time LIGO was proposed. It shows…

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By the time 1967 had rolled around, general relativity had been relegated to mathematics departments... in most people's minds, it bore no…

General relativity

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This is the first real evidence that we've seen now of high gravitational field strengths: monstrous things like stars moving at the…

Astronomy

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We were looking almost one-tenth of the way to the edge of the universe. We're planning to use the facilities we have…

Edge

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Gravitational waves, because they are so imperturbable - they go through everything - they will tell you the most information you can…

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I thought that there must be an easier way to explain how a gravitational wave interacts with matter: If one just looked…

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The obvious thing to me was, let's take freely floating masses in space and measure the time it takes light to travel…

Change

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Why do you do science? In this particular case, we don't have a very good reason to be doing this except for…

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Many of us on the project were thinking if we ever saw a gravitational wave, it'd be an itsy bitsy little tiny…

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What was done is measure directly, with exquisitely sensitive instruments, gravitational waves predicted about 100 years ago by Albert Einstein. These waves…

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One of the things I sort of dreamt about awhile ago is that if Einstein were still alive, it would be absolutely…

Alive

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We've seen black holes, which is already wonderful. We also expect to see the merger of neutron stars, and that was a…

Astronomy

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I didn't understand the Weber bar and how gravitational waves interacted with it. I sat and thought about it over a weekend,…

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For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books…

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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…

Energy

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My parents were singularly uninterested in me. My father was too self-centered and too busy with his own practice to pay a…

Attention

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