WSU: 100 Years of Gravitational Waves with Rai Weiss

Nobel laureate Rai Weiss is best known as one of the original creators of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Join him as he explores the history of this amazing project and the technology that made it a reality. #WorldSciU
This lecture was filmed on May 30, 2015 at the World Science Festival in New York City.
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0:00 - Start
From Einstein to LIGO - 00:00:05
Turning a Thought Experiment into Reality - 00:20:04
LIGO's Success - 00:38:54
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[@dustman96]

This was awesome. I got blasted, much of it beyond my understanding, but came out of it knowing a lot more than before. I can tell this guy really knows his field, and is excited about it.

[@gerardbiddle1808]

Thank you Maria Spiropulu for this fascinating presentation incorporating the Higgs bosons particles in the in future direction of particles physics and condensed phases in the and symmetry issues ahead.

[@charliemiskwaabineshii9001]

Relly awesome i knew very little of this before now. Thank you for getting lay people into science more..my grandkids thank you also!

[@salmanrazmi7644]

Thank you for a great lecture, you are wonderful teacher. It’s amazing how physics of gravitational wave is expanding our horizon to understand the universe.

[@fulmarmusic1413]

Pre-CMB stuff is gonna be awesome to know. Are we collapsing the wave by measuring it?

[@espaciohexadimencionalsern3668]

Just a small spark distorts space to me, even light gets distorted by light.

[@tigertiger1699]

🤯🙏

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❤😃👍

[@devchirayil779]

😍🤩

[@HaveRandomQuestions]

real life Dr. Robert Ford

[@RStell-wt5qr]

I didn't know Einstein's wrote a paper in 2016.

[@mscir]

He's not a very good speaker, he sounds doddering, mentioning important things almost as an afterthought at times, and his voice quavers sometimes, distracting.

[@jemadamson2715]

I zone out when a speaker is good. This keeps me on my feet

[@RStell-wt5qr]

He's made numerous errors as well. With regards to describing the calculation of the ratio of gravitation to mass. Also he referred to Einstein's 1916 paper as 'the 2016 paper'... Twice...

[@RickBoat]

Who cares? Its good data and hes not THAT bad.

[@RickBoat]

And hes talking without a script. Only prompted by the slides

[@RStell-wt5qr]

@@RickBoat true enough, the data checks out. Those who care enough to pick apart little mistakes would likely be taking those mistakes out of context. I'd give him a B or C for effort.