Astronomy Quote by Rainer Weiss

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

— 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

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

— Rainer Weiss

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…

— Rainer Weiss

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…

— Rainer Weiss

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

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…

— 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

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

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…

— 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

All at once, funding was gone due to the Mansfield Amendment, which was a reaction to the Vietnam War. In the minds of the…

— Rainer Weiss