A historic discovery announced recently confirms what Albert Einstein predicted almost a century back – the existence of gravitational waves.
Here is an interesting post that you might enjoy!
by Shane L. Larson
I have a good friend, Tyson, whom I don’t get to see nearly often enough. We are both privileged to be among the first generation of scientists who will know the Universe by observing the faint whisper of spacetime, bending under the influence of massive astrophysical systems. We are “gravitational wave astronomers.”
Picking crab with Tyson (far right) and family. [Image: Sabrina Savage] A while back we were sitting on his back porch late into the evening, picking crab and talking about everything. It was the kind of common, easy conversation among friends that ranges over movies, politics, family, childhood memories, inside jokes, and so on. But at one point, the conversation drifted back to science and to the near future. Tyson said something that really just kind of made us all stop in shocked silence: “If we’re really going to detect gravitational waves in…
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