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Einstein had two new predictions from general relativity. One was that light would bend. That was tested in 1919, and basically, he was proven right. The second prediction was gravitational waves, which took us 100 years to prove. The theory itself, which is thought by most to be rather obscure, you use every day, probably.

~Barry Barish

Topics: Basically Bend Day Einstein Every Every Day General Gravitational Had He Itself Light Most New Obscure Prediction Predictions Prove Proven Rather Relativity Right Second Tested Theory Thought Took Two Us Use Waves Which Would Years You 100 Years

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Everything we know about the universe is studied by using telescopes or other instruments that look at visible light, infrared, ultraviolet or X-ray - different wavelengths of electromagnetic interactions. Only 4 percent of what's in the universe gives off electromagnetic radiation, so we don't have any handle on the rest.

~Barry Barish

Topics: About Any Different Electromagnetic Everything Gives Handle Instruments Interactions Know Light Look Off Only Other Percent Radiation Rest Studied Universe Using Visible X-Ray

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It's crazy that we happen to have a country where it depends on what political party you are in whether you believe in climate change or not.

~Barry Barish

Topics: Believe Change Climate Climate Change Country Crazy Depends Happen Party Political Political Party Where Whether You

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Anything that makes us take more seriously scientists - or economists or chemists or physicists or biologists - I think is helpful in times when things get distorted because of people not paying attention to all the facts.

~Barry Barish

Topics: All The Facts Anything Attention Because Biologists Distorted Economists Facts Get Helpful Makes More Paying People Physicists Scientists Seriously Take Things Think Times Us I Think

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I have somewhat ambivalent feelings about the recognition of individuals when so much of this was a team effort.

~Barry Barish

Topics: About Ambivalent Effort Feelings Individuals Much Recognition Somewhat Team Team Effort

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The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics.

~Barry Barish

Topics: Detection Experimental Gravitational Large-Scale Modern Physics Triumph Truly Waves

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There's some aura about a Nobel Prize, there's a prestige, that gives me a responsibility that I didn't have before, that goes beyond my own work, as a spokesman for science.

~Barry Barish

Topics: About Aura Before Beyond Gives Goes Me My Own Nobel Nobel Prize Own Prestige Prize Responsibility Science Some Spokesman Work

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I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.

~Barry Barish

Topics: Challenges Equally Goals Me Motivated Scientific Technical Things Think Two Were I Think

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The technical challenges were technical challenges that were not unbeatable; it was just that we had to learn how to do things and how to build a sensitive enough device. That took us 20 years after we built the first version of the LIGO detector.

~Barry Barish

Topics: After Build Built Challenges Detector Device Enough First Had How Just Learn Sensitive Technical Things Took Unbeatable Us Version Were Years

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The size of the effect that we measured from the first event, the merging of two black holes, the actual size of the signal was about one thousandth the size of a proton, what it did to our apparatus.

~Barry Barish

Topics: About Actual Apparatus Black Black Holes Did Effect Event First Holes Measured Our Signal Size Two

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: January 27th, 1936

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