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
The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics. — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
Every time you accelerate - say by jumping up and down - you're generating gravitational waves. — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
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
Einstein had looked at the numbers and dimensions that went into his equations for gravitational waves and said, essentially, 'This is so… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
Einstein had two new predictions from general relativity. One was that light would bend. That was tested in 1919, and basically, he… — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
“A modern example of this stunning knowledge of nature that Einstein has gifted us, comes from 2016, when gravitational waves were discovered… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
Gravitational waves, because they are so imperturbable - they go through everything - they will tell you the most information you can… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
When gravitational waves reach the earth, the waves stretch and squeeze space. This is a tiny stretch and squeeze. Far too small… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
“if the Sun disappeared instantaneously, the Earth would continue to orbit the position of the Sun for seven minutes until the bad… — Andrew Thomas Copy Share Image
“The pulsar is like a lighthouse beam spinning at high speed. Every time it comes around to face us we see a… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
But if you think about a practical implication of enriching your life and giving you a sense of being part of a… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“A modern example of this stunning knowledge of nature that Einstein has gifted us, comes from 2016, when gravitational waves were discovered… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
“team of astronomers led by John M. Kovac of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics detected ripples in the fabric of space-time —… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What was done is measure directly, with exquisitely sensitive instruments, gravitational waves predicted about 100 years ago by Albert Einstein. These waves… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe,… — Neil Turok 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
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
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… — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
![“But if you think about a practical implication of enriching your life and giving you a sense of being part of a larger cosmos and possibly being able to use this [gravitational waves] as a tool in the future maybe to listen not just to black holes colliding, but maybe listen to the big bang…” quote by Brian Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/706/brian-greene-2334_able_but-if-you-think-about-a-practical-impli_440947.png)
