The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves
A head-vaporizing laser with a perfect wavelength detecting sub-proton space-time ripples. Huge thanks to Prof Rana Adhikari and LIGO: http://ligo.org Here's how he felt when he learned about...
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1.3 billion years agoin a galaxy far, far awaytwo black holes mergedAs they violently spiraled into each otherThey created traveling distortions in the fabric of space-timegravitational wavesin the last tenth of a secondthe energy released in these waveswas 50 times greaterthen the energy being released by everything elsein the observable universe combinedIt's like an awe-inspiring kind of energyafter spreading out through the universe at the speed of light for over a billion yearsthe waves reached earth, where they stretched and squeezed spacesuch that two light beams traveling in perpendicular pipes were put slightly out of stepallowing humans to detect the existence ofgravitational waves for the first time.That's a simple enough story to tell butwha...
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1.3 billion years agoin a galaxy far, far awaytwo black holes mergedAs they violently spiraled into each otherThey created traveling distortions in the fabric of space-timegravitational wavesin the last tenth of a secondthe energy released in these waveswas 50 times greaterthen the energy being released by everything elsein the observable universe combinedIt's like an awe-inspiring kind of energyafter spreading out through the universe at the speed of light for over a billion yearsthe waves reached earth, where they stretched and squeezed spacesuch that two light beams traveling in perpendicular pipes were put slightly out of stepallowing humans to detect the existence ofgravitational waves for the first time.That's a simple enough story to tell butwha...
