Andrew Chamblin Lecture 2017 - LIGO and Beyond : Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves
Duration: 1 hour 16 mins
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Guest Speaker: Kip Thorne delivers the Eleventh Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture - Tuesday 23 May 2017
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| Created: | 2017-06-14 16:37 |
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| Collection: | Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lectures |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Ms J E Wilders |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Abstract: | Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space and time predicted by Albert Einstein 100 years ago. After a half century effort, we humans have had our first contact them. LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) has detected and deciphered gravitational waves produced by pairs of colliding black holes a billion light years from Earth. Thorne will describe LIGO, its genesis and its discoveries, and the future of gravitational-wave astronomy: a future in which astronomers will probe a rich range of phenomena, including the birth of the universe and the birth of the fundamental forces of nature in our universe’s earliest moments. |
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