Just days after Caltech and MIT announced confirmation of a major Albert Einstein theory, a seminar and exhibit on Einstein’s famous theory of General Relativity will be held at Caltech Tuesday, February 16, 2016, starting at 4 p.m., at the Dabney Hall Lounge.
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“Our team has been anxiously waiting for the first detection of gravitational waves so that we can rapidly point the Dark Energy Camera at this location and search for the associated visible light”, says Edo Berger of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), the Principal Investigator of the follow-up team. Standing near such a wave would be odd, perhaps even unsafe, as it would warp space to extremes, causing light to scatter in unusual ways.
One thing is clear, however: This is the first time that we’ve acquired direct evidence of a black hole merger – a key mechanism that underlies black hole evolution theories – so it’s good to know we’re on the right track.
Einstein in 1916 proposed the existence of gravitational waves as an outgrowth of his groundbreaking general theory of relativity, which depicted gravity as a distortion of space and time triggered by the presence of matter. Thus, our planet is supported at orbital distance by a hollow created in the cosmic texture by its own weight. The research paper has been written by many scientists who have worked extremely hard over the years on the LIGO project. This discovery ushers in a new era in human understanding of our place in the universe.
The recent discovery confirm one of Albert Einstein’s last unverified theories about the universe.
Like electromagnetic waves, gravitational waves too are thought to be characteristic of the event that generated them.
The gravitational waves were detected on September 14, 2015, at 5:51 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time by both of the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory detectors, located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, USA. Previously we could only “see” the universe… In addition to the LIGO gravitational waveform modeling and characterization algorithms, ORCA can simulate other astronomical phenomena such as neutron stars.
The Fullerton staff is involved in leadership positions within the collaboration and sees the college as a source for undergraduate students with training in this newly discovered branch of science, Smith said.
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The discovery of Einstein’s gravitational waves are, well, making waves all over the world. “You’re opening your eyes – in this case, our ears – to a new set of signals from the universe that our previous technologies did not allow us to receive, study and learn from”. “Studying black holes has been most of my life’s work, and the discovery of gravitational waves using LIGO detectors will open an entirely new branch of astronomy”. Dr. Willis has been one of the senior lead developers on the PyCBC data analysis pipeline used in the discovery. The orbiting black holes had been losing energy as gravitational waves for millions of years slowly circling closer together, however these effects were too small to measure.
