A gravitational wave is a very slight stretching in one dimension. If there's a gravitational wave traveling towards you, you get a… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
I said, suppose you take a light - I was thinking of just light bulbs because, in those days, lasers were not… — 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
Many of us on the project were thinking if we ever saw a gravitational wave, it'd be an itsy bitsy little tiny… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
I thought that there must be an easier way to explain how a gravitational wave interacts with matter: If one just looked… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
The obvious thing to me was, let's take freely floating masses in space and measure the time it takes light to travel… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
We'll have four different gravitational wave windows open within the next 20 years, and each of them will see something different. We'll… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
“But the deeper root cause could only be found in the minds of humankind. Never explicitly stated, and perhaps not even consciously… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
