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Rainer Weiss

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[Wikipedia] Rainer Weiss was a German-American physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. He was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an adjunct professor at Louisiana State University. He is best known for inventing the laser interferome

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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…

Amazing

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My parents were singularly uninterested in me. My father was too self-centered and too busy with his own practice to pay a…

Attention

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I prefer really often to talk to high school students, mostly because I think they're the future for us.

Future

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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…

Energy

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If the wave is getting bigger, it causes the time to grow a little bit. If the wave is trying to contract,…

Clock

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The concept of what we're looking for is so important. The fact that the effect is tiny is just our misfortune.

Concept

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One of the things I sort of dreamt about awhile ago is that if Einstein were still alive, it would be absolutely…

Alive

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