Ahead Quote by 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

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

The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics.

— Barry Barish

Einstein had two new predictions from general relativity. One was that light would bend. That was tested in 1919, and basically, he was proven…

— Barry Barish

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

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

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

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

We'll have four different gravitational wave windows open within the next 20 years, and each of them will see something different. We'll be probing…

— Kip Thorne

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

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