--- title: "6 Einstein Quotes By Rainer Weiss" description: "6 Einstein quotes by Rainer Weiss. Plus more from Rainer Weiss and more Einstein sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67f/rainer-weiss-11997_believe_the-whole-idea-of-gravity-curling-up-spa_557722.jpg" --- > [The whole idea of gravity curling up space, that is the epitome of what is going on in a black hole. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/the-whole-idea-of-gravity-curling-up-space-that-is-the-epitome-of/) [Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67f/rainer-weiss-11997_believe_the-whole-idea-of-gravity-curling-up-spa_557722.jpg) > [All of this technology wasn't available to Einstein. I bet he would've invented LIGO.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/all-of-this-technology-wasn-t-available-to-einstein-i-bet-he-would-ve/) [Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c14/rainer-weiss-11997_available_all-of-this-technology-wasn-t-available_1445043.jpg) > [Einstein had looked at the numbers and dimensions that went into his equations for gravitational waves and said, essentially, 'This is so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/einstein-had-looked-at-the-numbers-and-dimensions-that-went-into-his/) [Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e27/rainer-weiss-11997_he_einstein-had-looked-at-the-numbers-and-d_2055888.jpg) > [We're going to be seeing things from regions in the universe where Einstein is the whole story. Newton you can forget about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/we-re-going-to-be-seeing-things-from-regions-in-the-universe-where/) [Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b08/rainer-weiss-11997_einstein_we-re-going-to-be-seeing-things-from-reg_2341412.jpg) > [The triumph is that the waveform we measure is very well represented by solutions of these equations. Einstein is right in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/the-triumph-is-that-the-waveform-we-measure-is-very-well-represented/) [Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c99/rainer-weiss-11997_einstein_the-triumph-is-that-the-waveform-we-meas_2369734.jpg) > [One of the things I sort of dreamt about awhile ago is that if Einstein were still alive, it would be absolutely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/one-of-the-things-i-sort-of-dreamt-about-awhile-ago-is-that-if/) [Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ce/rainer-weiss-11997_alive_one-of-the-things-i-sort-of-dreamt-about_3082516.jpg) ## Other authors on Einstein ## More by Rainer Weiss > [Gravitational waves, because they are so imperturbable - they go through everything - they will tell you the most information you can get about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/gravitational-waves-because-they-are-so-imperturbable-they-go-through/) [Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/) > [The waves travel with the velocity of light and slightly squeeze and stretch space transverse to the direction of their motion. The first waves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/the-waves-travel-with-the-velocity-of-light-and-slightly-squeeze-and/) [Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/) > [Experimentally, we now have demonstrated that Einstein's theory is right in strong gravitational fields. That's important to a lot of people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/experimentally-we-now-have-demonstrated-that-einstein-s-theory-is/) [Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/you-think-earth-s-gravity-is-really-something-when-you-re-climbing/) [Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/we-ve-seen-black-holes-which-is-already-wonderful-we-also-expect-to/) [Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/) > [We know about black holes and neutron stars, but we hope there are other phenomena we can see because of the gravitational waves they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/we-know-about-black-holes-and-neutron-stars-but-we-hope-there-are/) [Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/we-were-looking-almost-one-tenth-of-the-way-to-the-edge-of-the/) [Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/it-s-very-very-exciting-that-it-worked-out-in-the-end-that-we-are/) [Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/) > [For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books and science…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/for-reasons-probably-related-to-the-popular-vision-of-albert-einstein/) [Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/the-whole-idea-of-gravity-curling-up-space-that-is-the-epitome-of/) [Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/) > [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/the-obvious-thing-to-me-was-let-s-take-freely-floating-masses-in/) [Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/) > [All at once, funding was gone due to the Mansfield Amendment, which was a reaction to the Vietnam War. In the minds of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/all-at-once-funding-was-gone-due-to-the-mansfield-amendment-which-was/) [Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/) > [The whole world tried to reproduce the Weber experiments.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/the-whole-world-tried-to-reproduce-the-weber-experiments/) [Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/) > [My father was a dictator in the true German sense. He suppressed my mother.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/my-father-was-a-dictator-in-the-true-german-sense-he-suppressed-my/) [Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/) > [By the time we made the discovery in 2015, the National Science Foundation had put close to $1.1 billion into it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/by-the-time-we-made-the-discovery-in-2015-the-national-science/) [Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/einstein/rainer-weiss/#itemlist", "name": "6 Einstein Quotes By Rainer Weiss", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The whole idea of gravity curling up space, that is the epitome of what is going on in a black hole. 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