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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.…

— 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 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

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

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

What was done is measure directly, with exquisitely sensitive instruments, gravitational waves predicted about 100 years ago by Albert Einstein. These waves are a…

— 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

“A modern example of this stunning knowledge of nature that Einstein has gifted us, comes from 2016, when gravitational waves were discovered by a…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

— Rainer Weiss

You have the possibility to give light a dimension in time.

— Jonas Mekas

In the beginning of time, light drew out matter along with itself into a mass as great as the fabric of the world.

— Robert Grosseteste

“Time behaves differently in super-fluids and black holes, this is related to light propagation. Particles lose their identity in both super-fluids and black holes.…

— Rick Delmonico