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Over years, the noise level will be brought down, and LIGO will be three times better and see three times farther.

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All of this technology wasn't available to Einstein. I bet he would've invented LIGO.

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Receiving money for something that was a pleasure to begin with is a little outrageous.

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We're going to be seeing things from regions in the universe where Einstein is the whole story. Newton you can forget about.

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The concept of what we're looking for is so important. The fact that the effect is tiny is just our misfortune.

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The triumph is that the waveform we measure is very well represented by solutions of these equations. Einstein is right in a regime where his theory has never been tested before.

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This is the first real evidence that we've seen now of high gravitational field strengths: monstrous things like stars moving at the velocity of light, smashing into each other, and making the geometry of space-time turn into some sort of washing machine.

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Space is much stiffer than you imagine; it's stiffer than a gigantic piece of iron. That's why it's taken so damned long to detect gravitational waves: to deform space takes an enormous amount of energy, and there are only so many things that have enough.

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Many of us on the project were thinking if we ever saw a gravitational wave, it'd be an itsy bitsy little tiny thing; we'd never see it. This thing was so big that you didn't have to do much to see it.

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The students on my course were fascinated by the idea that gravitational waves might exist. I didn't know much about them at all, and for the life of me, I could not understand how a bar interacts with a gravitational wave.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: September 29th, 1932

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