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The Search for Gravitational Waves
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The search for gravitational waves is the hunt for the universe's oldest light, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), onto which gravitational waves get exposed, in hopes of hearing the effects of gravitational waves from the Big Bang.
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Two men, Hulson Taylor, detect the first indirect evidence of gravitational waves, which would later win them the Nobel Prize.
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Summary
Two men, Hulson Taylor, detect the first indirect evidence of gravitational waves, which would later win them the Nobel Prize. Scientists Lauded the use of the cmb as a way to detect and better understand the effect of gravitational waves from the big bang.
ChapterThe Search for Gravitational Waves
Episode#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
Paul Steinhardt talks about his involvement in an experiment that measured the universe to be very close to flat, which could be proof of the inflationary epoch originally conceived of by Alan Guth.
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Summary
Paul Steinhardt talks about his involvement in an experiment that measured the universe to be very close to flat, which could be proof of the inflationary epoch originally conceived of by Alan Guth.
ChapterThe Search for Gravitational Waves
Episode#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The Boomerang experiment used hierarchical equal area triangles to measure the first doppler peak in the primordial plasma to determine the geometry of the universe, revealing that it has zero spatial curvature.
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The Boomerang experiment used hierarchical equal area triangles to measure the first doppler peak in the primordial plasma to determine the geometry of the universe, revealing that it has zero spatial curvature. The data from this experiment also led to the development of fast algorithmic decomposition of spheres and machine learning in the early 2000s.