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 was able to both identify the candidate event within minutes and perform the detailed analysis that… — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
It's hard to do large, expensive projects without some sort of hierarchical structure where somebody can tell you - maybe softly, but at least… — Barry Barish Copy Share
The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics. — Barry Barish Copy Share
It's very difficult to tell when you're successful, because it's so hard to make measurements. — Barry Barish Copy Share
I live on the Santa Monica Beach and bike up and down almost every day. I like exercise, and I like literature a lot… — Barry Barish Copy Share
I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me. — Barry Barish Copy Share
There's some aura about a Nobel Prize, there's a prestige, that gives me a responsibility that I didn't have before, that goes beyond my… — Barry Barish Copy Share
I have somewhat ambivalent feelings about the recognition of individuals when so much of this was a team effort. — Barry Barish Copy Share
Anything that makes us take more seriously scientists - or economists or chemists or physicists or biologists - I think is helpful in times… — Barry Barish Copy Share
If we are going to build an ambitious machine, then it's got to be a global machine. — Barry Barish Copy Share
Scientists, especially physicists, we're presumptuous and think we can do everything better than everybody else. And one thing that I realized early is, I… — Barry Barish Copy Share
I can't imagine that, now that we have another way to look at the universe, that there isn't going to be some enormous surprises.… — Barry Barish Copy Share
When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great… — Barry Barish Copy Share
