Gravitational Quote by Rainer Weiss

sooner or later the universe usually provides lessons of humility to those who need it the most.

— Cherie Carter-Scott

When the entire country was watching one show there was a major discussion happening; is it possible for that to happen in a 1…

— Judd Apatow

In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun at such a fever…

— Tom Shales

It isn't necessary to be perfect to be a channel for the universe. You just have to be real- be yourself. The more real,…

— Shakti Gawain

A gravitational wave is a very slight stretching in one dimension. If there's a gravitational wave traveling towards you, you get a stretch in…

— Rainer Weiss

Einstein had looked at the numbers and dimensions that went into his equations for gravitational waves and said, essentially, 'This is so tiny that…

— Rainer Weiss

It's a spectacular signal. It's a signal many of us have wanted to observe since the time LIGO was proposed. It shows the dynamics…

— Rainer Weiss

I didn't understand the Weber bar and how gravitational waves interacted with it. I sat and thought about it over a weekend, trying to…

— Rainer Weiss

This is the first real evidence that we've seen now of high gravitational field strengths: monstrous things like stars moving at the velocity of…

— 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 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

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