Gravitational Waves Quotes by Rainer Weiss

10 Gravitational Waves quotes by Rainer Weiss

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Rainer Weiss’s own words about spacetime ripples come together in this brief selection. It’s a handy primer for anyone curious about how the universe’s subtle vibrations have been described by one of their discoverers.

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

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We know about black holes and neutron stars, but we hope there are other phenomena we can see because of the gravitational…

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

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

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It's very, very exciting that it worked out in the end that we are actually detecting things and actually adding to the…

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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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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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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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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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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…

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

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The waves travel with the velocity of light and slightly squeeze and stretch space transverse to the direction of their motion. The first waves…

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Experimentally, we now have demonstrated that Einstein's theory is right in strong gravitational fields. That's important to a lot of people.

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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…

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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 thing that…

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We know about black holes and neutron stars, but we hope there are other phenomena we can see because of the gravitational waves they…

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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 to make…

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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…

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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 and science…

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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…

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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 between them.…

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All at once, funding was gone due to the Mansfield Amendment, which was a reaction to the Vietnam War. In the minds of the…

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