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Discovering Gravitational Waves
1:24:56 - 1:30:03 (05:06)
The discovery and understanding of gravitational waves involved years of experimentation, fixing instrument limitations from failed attempts, and finally, in 2015, the successful detection of two black holes colliding into each other.
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Scientists worked for almost 10 years to create an instrument that could detect gravitational waves, and they made several changes, including adding seismic isolation, which was a key component to their success.
1:24:56 - 1:28:49 (03:52)
Gravitational Waves
Summary
Scientists worked for almost 10 years to create an instrument that could detect gravitational waves, and they made several changes, including adding seismic isolation, which was a key component to their success.
ChapterDiscovering Gravitational Waves
Episode#213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The co-founders of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss, discuss the discovery of the first-ever gravitational waves and the process they went through to confirm it was not a false signal.
1:28:49 - 1:30:03 (01:14)
LIGO
Summary
The co-founders of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss, discuss the discovery of the first-ever gravitational waves and the process they went through to confirm it was not a false signal.