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The ILC will go forward, but the U.S. will fall behind.

~Barry Barish

Topics: Behind Fall Forward Go Will

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The most exciting science requires the most complex instruments.

~Barry Barish

Topics: Complex Exciting Instruments Most Requires Science

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We said that with initial LIGO, detections would be possible, and with Advanced LIGO, detections would be probable.

~Barry Barish

Topics: Advanced Initial Possible Probable Said Would

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If we get to the design sensitivity and make no detections, then there are a lot of things that will have to go back to the drawing board theoretically. If we fail, we're not expecting that the NSF will help bail it out somehow.

~Barry Barish

Topics: Back Bail Board Design Drawing Expecting Fail Get Go Help Lot Make Out Sensitivity Somehow Then Theoretically Things Will

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It seems kind of nutty to send up something new when there's something already there that can do the job.

~Barry Barish

Topics: Job Kind New Nutty Seems Send Something Something New Up

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The fact that people can predict gravity wave sources that are within shouting distance makes me feel incredibly confident. Compared to monopoles, these sources are not just optimistic thinking.

~Barry Barish

Topics: Compared Confident Distance Fact Feel Gravity Incredibly Just Makes Me Optimistic People Predict Shouting Sources Thinking Wave Within

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The first instrument is not the final instrument.

~Barry Barish

Topics: Final First Instrument

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In a sense, the searches for both magnetic monopoles and gravity waves are very similar. But, theoretically, gravity waves are more solid.

~Barry Barish

Topics: Both Gravity Magnetic More Searches Sense Similar Solid Theoretically Very Waves

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In a small lab, if you make a mistake, you can go in the next day and fix it. But here, when you are committed to spending a hundred thousand or a million dollars, you can't fix it later. You need to have a system of checks and balances internally. In particle physics, that's just part of the structure.

~Barry Barish

Topics: Balances Checks Checks And Balances Committed Day Dollars Fix Go Here Hundred Just Lab Later Make Million Million Dollars Mistake Need Next Part Particle Physics Small Spending Structure System Thousand You

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If we are going to build an ambitious machine, then it's got to be a global machine.

~Barry Barish

Topics: Ambitious Build Global Going Got Machine Then

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: January 27th, 1936

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