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> [Over years, the noise level will be brought down, and LIGO will be three times better and see three times farther.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/over-years-the-noise-level-will-be-brought-down-and-ligo-will-be/)

[Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/)

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## More by Rainer Weiss

> [Gravitational waves, because they are so imperturbable - they go through everything - they will tell you the most information you can get about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/gravitational-waves-because-they-are-so-imperturbable-they-go-through/)

[Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/)

> [The waves travel with the velocity of light and slightly squeeze and stretch space transverse to the direction of their motion. The first waves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/the-waves-travel-with-the-velocity-of-light-and-slightly-squeeze-and/)

[Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/)

> [Experimentally, we now have demonstrated that Einstein's theory is right in strong gravitational fields. That's important to a lot of people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/experimentally-we-now-have-demonstrated-that-einstein-s-theory-is/)

[Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/you-think-earth-s-gravity-is-really-something-when-you-re-climbing/)

[Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/we-ve-seen-black-holes-which-is-already-wonderful-we-also-expect-to/)

[Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/)

> [We know about black holes and neutron stars, but we hope there are other phenomena we can see because of the gravitational waves they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/we-know-about-black-holes-and-neutron-stars-but-we-hope-there-are/)

[Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/we-were-looking-almost-one-tenth-of-the-way-to-the-edge-of-the/)

[Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/it-s-very-very-exciting-that-it-worked-out-in-the-end-that-we-are/)

[Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/)

> [For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books and science…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/for-reasons-probably-related-to-the-popular-vision-of-albert-einstein/)

[Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/the-whole-idea-of-gravity-curling-up-space-that-is-the-epitome-of/)

[Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/the-obvious-thing-to-me-was-let-s-take-freely-floating-masses-in/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/all-at-once-funding-was-gone-due-to-the-mansfield-amendment-which-was/)

[Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/)

> [The whole world tried to reproduce the Weber experiments.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/the-whole-world-tried-to-reproduce-the-weber-experiments/)

[Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/)

> [My father was a dictator in the true German sense. He suppressed my mother.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/my-father-was-a-dictator-in-the-true-german-sense-he-suppressed-my/)

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> [By the time we made the discovery in 2015, the National Science Foundation had put close to $1.1 billion into it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-weiss/by-the-time-we-made-the-discovery-in-2015-the-national-science/)

[Rainer Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-weiss/)

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