The size of the effect that we measured from the first event, the merging of two black holes, the actual size of the signal was about one thousandth the size of a proton, what it did to our apparatus. — 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 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 Scientific Collaboration… — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
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 Image
The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics. — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to tell when you're successful, because it's so hard to make measurements. — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
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 Image
I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me. — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
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 Image
I have somewhat ambivalent feelings about the recognition of individuals when so much of this was a team effort. — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
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 Image
If we are going to build an ambitious machine, then it's got to be a global machine. — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
