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When gravitational waves reach the earth, the waves stretch and squeeze space. This is a tiny stretch and squeeze. Far too small to detect…

— Kip Thorne

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

Many of us on the project were thinking if we ever saw a gravitational wave, it'd be an itsy bitsy little tiny thing; we'd…

— Rainer Weiss

The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.

— Stephen Hawking

Observing gravitational waves would yield an enormous amount of information about the phenomena of strong-field gravity. If we could detect black holes collide, that…

— 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.…

— Rainer Weiss

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

Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether…

— Kip Thorne

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

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

The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe.

— Stephen Hawking

We'll have four different gravitational wave windows open within the next 20 years, and each of them will see something different. We'll be probing…

— Kip Thorne