Gravity Quote by Barry Barish

“In a sense, the searches for both magnetic monopoles and gravity waves are very similar. But, theoretically, gravity waves are more solid.”

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The waves are subtle, altering spacetime and the distance between objects as far apart as the Earth and the Moon by much less than…

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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…

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It's hard to do large, expensive projects without some sort of hierarchical structure where somebody can tell you - maybe softly, but at least…

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The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics.

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It's very difficult to tell when you're successful, because it's so hard to make measurements.

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I live on the Santa Monica Beach and bike up and down almost every day. I like exercise, and I like literature a lot…

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I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.

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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…

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I have somewhat ambivalent feelings about the recognition of individuals when so much of this was a team effort.

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Anything that makes us take more seriously scientists - or economists or chemists or physicists or biologists - I think is helpful in times…

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If we are going to build an ambitious machine, then it's got to be a global machine.

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The first instrument is not the final instrument.

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