Direction Quote by Rainer Weiss

You know the Einstein waves can be thought of as a distortion of space and time. But the way we see it, we see…

— 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…

— Rainer Weiss

I thought that there must be an easier way to explain how a gravitational wave interacts with matter: If one just looked at the…

— 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 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

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 to detect…

— Rainer Weiss

The students on my course were fascinated by the idea that gravitational waves might exist. I didn't know much about them at all, and…

— 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 interpretation of apparent long-distance action by means of continuously propagating effects was vigorously asserted by Isaac Newton. In his wake, the interpretation of…

— Henning Genz

I said, suppose you take a light - I was thinking of just light bulbs because, in those days, lasers were not yet really…

— Rainer Weiss

Some physicists describe gravity in terms of ten dimensions all curled up. But those aren't real words-just placeholders, used to refer to parts of…

— Scott Adams

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

— Barry Barish