All of this technology wasn't available to Einstein. I bet he would've invented LIGO. — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
We're going to be seeing things from regions in the universe where Einstein is the whole story. Newton you can forget about. — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
The rule has been that when one opens a new channel to the universe, there is usually a surprise in it. Why… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
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
Experimentally, we now have demonstrated that Einstein's theory is right in strong gravitational fields. That's important to a lot of people. — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
We knew about black holes in other ways, and we knew about neutron stars - well, those are the two things that… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
We've seen black holes, which is already wonderful. We also expect to see the merger of neutron stars, and that was a… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
The triumph is that the waveform we measure is very well represented by solutions of these equations. Einstein is right in 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
You know the Einstein waves can be thought of as a distortion of space and time. But the way we see it,… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
The waves travel with the velocity of light and slightly squeeze and stretch space transverse to the direction of their motion. 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
By the time 1967 had rolled around, general relativity had been relegated to mathematics departments... in most people's minds, it bore no… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
This is the first real evidence that we've seen now of high gravitational field strengths: monstrous things like stars moving at the… — 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
It's a spectacular signal. It's a signal many of us have wanted to observe since the time LIGO was proposed. It shows… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
The whole idea of gravity curling up space, that is the epitome of what is going on in a black hole. I… — 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
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
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
Gravitational waves, because they are so imperturbable - they go through everything - they will tell you the most information you can get about… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
The waves travel with the velocity of light and slightly squeeze and stretch space transverse to the direction of their motion. The first waves… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
Experimentally, we now have demonstrated that Einstein's theory is right in strong gravitational fields. That's important to a lot of people. — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
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… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
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… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
We know about black holes and neutron stars, but we hope there are other phenomena we can see because of the gravitational waves they… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
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… — Rainer Weiss 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 knowledge, through… — Rainer Weiss 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 and science… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
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… — 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 between them.… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
All at once, funding was gone due to the Mansfield Amendment, which was a reaction to the Vietnam War. In the minds of the… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
