Tag Archives: Kip Thorne

Hey LIGO

Posted on August 22, 2018 by PlatoHagel

Hey LIGO *** How’s it going, LIGO?  Members of the public can use Hey LIGO; they just might be disappointed if they’re looking for the kind of quippy, vocalized replies we’ve come to expect from our digital assistants. Hey LIGO … Continue reading →

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What Types of Sources Cause Gravitational Waves?

Posted on October 17, 2015 by PlatoHagel

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. … Continue reading →

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eLISA

Posted on December 12, 2014 by PlatoHagel

See: eLISA The European Space Agency (ESA) has recently begun choosing candidates for the next large mission launch slots. The first step was the submission of white papers advocating science themes. Out of many candidates, ESA now selected two. “We … Continue reading →

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Interstellar Preview Trailer

Posted on October 29, 2014 by PlatoHagel

See : Interstellar – Trailer – Official Warner Bros. UK    *** See also: Interstellar: Traversing the Wormhole Entanglement = Wormholes Wormhole Dialogos of Eide

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Weber Bars Ring True?

Posted on December 21, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Gravitational Radiation Gravitational waves have a polarization pattern that causes objects to expand in one direction, while contracting in the perpendicular direction. That is, they have spin two. This is because gravity waves are fluctuations in the tensorial metric of … Continue reading →

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The LIGO and Virgo Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Posted on May 4, 2013 by PlatoHagel

An artist’s impression of two stars orbiting each other (left). The orbit shrinks as the system emits gravitational waves (middle). When the stars merge (right), there is a resulting powerful emission of gravitational waves. [Image: NASA] The LIGO and Virgo … Continue reading →

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Generalizatons on:" It From Bit" Part 2

Posted on May 3, 2013 by PlatoHagel

John Archibald Wheeler (born July 9, 1911) is an eminent American theoretical physicist. One of the later collaborators of Albert Einstein, he tried to achieve Einstein’s vision of a unified field theory. He is also known as the coiner of … Continue reading →

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Observational Gravitational-Wave Astronomy.

Posted on November 26, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Figure 1: Gravitational wave strain and strain sensitivity for a 5 year observation with PTAs.The red dashed line is the approximate strain sensitivity for current PTAs (11), and the greendashed line shows the previous estimate for the stochastic signal strength … Continue reading →

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Brian Clegg: Gravity

Posted on July 17, 2012 by PlatoHagel

A history of gravity, and a study of its importance and relevance to our lives, as well as its influence on other areas of science.  Physicists will tell you that four forces control the universe. Of these, gravity may the … Continue reading →

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Developing Scenario

Posted on March 17, 2011 by PlatoHagel

We can learn about the first fraction of a second, among other things, by studying the polarization pattern of the CMB…Yuki D. Takahashi I was glad to see link  by Bee of Backreaction that expanded on what I had learn … Continue reading →

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