Jumping Quote by Rainer Weiss

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“Every time you accelerate - say by jumping up and down - you're generating gravitational waves.”

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Gravitational waves, because they are so imperturbable - they go through everything - they will tell you the most information you can get about…

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The waves travel with the velocity of light and slightly squeeze and stretch space transverse to the direction of their motion. The first waves…

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Experimentally, we now have demonstrated that Einstein's theory is right in strong gravitational fields. That's important to a lot of people.

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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…

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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…

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We know about black holes and neutron stars, but we hope there are other phenomena we can see because of the gravitational waves they…

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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…

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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…

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For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books and science…

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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…

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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.…

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I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his…

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When you're three, you're into custard, and jumping.

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We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The director would send down messages like,…

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I am not breaking my rules,' I snapped, hating that I'd ended up on the advice-recieving end of things, jumping from Dear Remy to…

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In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile, like he…

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Jumping up and down is definitely sexy," Vayl assured me. "Would you like to do it two or three times right now before we…

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You get to shoot things, and things blow up, and you're jumping off of buildings. It's insane! And hot girls. And you get to…

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If you understand writing as primarily engaging an imaginary reader, well, you've kind of been doing that your whole life. You walk into a…

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I think to be a supermodel you first had to be a model, and I think people are jumping and missing that stage.

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The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

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