- Distortion
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer really often to talk to high school students, mostly because I think they're the future for us.
- Black Holes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The waves travel with the velocity of light and slightly squeeze and stretch space transverse to the direction of their motion. The first waves we measured came from the collision of two black holes each about 30 times the mass of our sun.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books and science fiction, our gravitational wave discoveries have had an amazing public impact.
- Exquisitely
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- Nov 07, 2020
What was done is measure directly, with exquisitely sensitive instruments, gravitational waves predicted about 100 years ago by Albert Einstein. These waves are a new way to study the universe and are expected to have significant impact on astronomy and astrophysics in the years ahead.
- American Public
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all enormously indebted to the National Science Foundation of the United States and the American public for steady support over close to 50 years.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in an epoch where rational reasoning associated with evidence isn't universally accepted and is, in fact, in jeopardy. That worries me a lot.
- Black Holes
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know about black holes and neutron stars, but we hope there are other phenomena we can see because of the gravitational waves they emit.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've seen black holes, which is already wonderful. We also expect to see the merger of neutron stars, and that was a thing that actually gave this field a certain credibility when it was discovered that there were pairs of neutron stars in our galaxy, and people stopped laughing at us when that was found out.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experimentally, we now have demonstrated that Einstein's theory is right in strong gravitational fields. That's important to a lot of people.
- Good Reason
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do you do science? In this particular case, we don't have a very good reason to be doing this except for the knowledge that it brings. This research is especially important to young people. We all want to know what's going on in the universe.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I sort of dreamt about awhile ago is that if Einstein were still alive, it would be absolutely wonderful to go to him and tell him about the discovery, and he would have been very pleased, I'm sure of that.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that this radiation is so penetrating - nothing stops it - makes it so you can look for things that you have never seen before, and you can look at things you know in a way that's new. That is really the big step forward.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
You think Earth's gravity is really something when you're climbing the stairs. But, as far as physics goes, it is a pipsqueak, infinitesimal, tiny little effect.
- Nov 07, 2020
We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.
- Dope
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a person who thought I was OK. I wasn't a complete dope. I got some confidence out of that.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time 1967 had rolled around, general relativity had been relegated to mathematics departments... in most people's minds, it bore no relation to physics. And that was mostly because experiments to prove it were so hard to do - all these effects that Einstein's theory had predicted were infinitesimally small.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very, very exciting that it worked out in the end that we are actually detecting things and actually adding to the knowledge, through gravitational waves, of what goes on in the universe.
- Black Holes
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- Nov 07, 2020
We knew about black holes in other ways, and we knew about neutron stars - well, those are the two things that ultimately got seen.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were singularly uninterested in me. My father was too self-centered and too busy with his own practice to pay a lot of attention to me, and my mother was probably deflected more by my sister.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say, 'I failed out of college! My life is over!' Well, it's not over. It depends on what you do with it.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020