Gravitational waves – ripples in
space-time predicted by Einstein’s
General Theory of Relativity – have
finally been detectedIt looks like the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics already
has a frontrunner: a team at LIGO has directly
detected gravitational waves for the first time, 100
years after they were predicted by Albert Einstein’s
General Theory of Relativity.THE DAWN OF
A NEW ERA
THE DETECTION OF
G R AV ITAT IO N A L
WAVES WILL GIVE
US A FRESH
PERSPECTIVE ON
THE UNIVERSE
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