The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of…

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

— Rainer Weiss

When gravitational waves reach the earth, the waves stretch and squeeze space. This is a tiny stretch and squeeze. Far too small to detect…

— Kip Thorne

If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe, a pattern…

— Neil Turok

Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether…

— Kip Thorne

The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe.

— Stephen Hawking

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

Every time you accelerate - say by jumping up and down - you're generating gravitational waves.

— Rainer Weiss

When the signal reached LIGO from a collision of two stellar black holes that occurred 1.3 billion years ago, the 1,000-scientist-strong LIGO Scientific Collaboration…

— Barry Barish

The waves are subtle, altering spacetime and the distance between objects as far apart as the Earth and the Moon by much less than…

— Barry Barish

Observing gravitational waves would yield an enormous amount of information about the phenomena of strong-field gravity. If we could detect black holes collide, that…

— Rainer Weiss

The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Rainer Weiss

Einstein had looked at the numbers and dimensions that went into his equations for gravitational waves and said, essentially, 'This is so tiny that…

— Rainer Weiss

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

— Rainer Weiss

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 to detect…

— Rainer Weiss