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May 3, 2024

sixpenceee: Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving…

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Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right

On Thursday (Feb. 11, 2016) at 10:30 a.m. ET, the National Science Foundation
will gather scientists from Caltech, MIT and the LIGO Scientific
Collaboration in Washington D.C. to update the scientific community on the efforts being made by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) to detect gravitational waves.

But why is this exciting? And what the heck are “gravitational waves”?

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from Planet GS via John Jason Fallows on Inoreader http://ift.tt/1Xmg8rS

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