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What Types of Sources Cause Gravitational Waves?
Advanced LIGO is searching for gravitational waves – what will it find, and what will it mean? Caltech LIGO scientists Kip Thorne, Sarah Gossan, and Rana Adhikari answer your questions. More information: http://ligo.caltech.edu See Also: LIGO as video source page. Video is for education purposes only. Dialogos of Eide
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How to Find Black holes with Lasers
In February 2013 I was invited by the Institute of Physics to give a lecture in the famous lecture theatre of the Royal Institution of Great Britainas part of their Physics in Perspective series. I was to expect about 400 students and teachers from schools across the country. See: How to Find Black holes with…
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Gravity Probe B Proves Einstein Right
Hmmmm…….only polite applause? Wee wobbles. Gravity Probe B measured slight canting of the spins of gyroscopes to measure two effects of general relativity. Credit: Bob Kahn/Gravity Probe B/Stanford University Fifty years after it was conceived, a $760 million NASA spacecraft has confirmed Einstein’s theory of gravity, or general relativity, physicists announced today. Gravity Probe B…
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Testing Einstein’s Universe
See larger picture of below hereComputer art showing the warping of space-time and the GP-B satellite. Artist: James Overduin and Pancho Eekels. Our aim is to make “spacetime” a relevant concept in your understanding of the universe, to make “gyroscopes” a recognizable tool in the technology of your world, and to illustrate how even the…
