Chuck Nice

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7,962 appearances 90 recordings 13 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard 18 Sep

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It's because of that fact that LIGO, Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory,

has two lasers at right angles to each other.

So if one of them stretched, moving that way, it's not stretching the other one.

And it's those two path lengths that we compare with each other.

Gotcha.

That's how we know if a gravitational wave washed over us.

We've got smart people designing this.

National Science Foundation, yeah.

Interesting.

I love it.

So 1915, Albert Einstein puts forth the general theory of relativity.

Okay.

A year later, he uses the general theory of relativity to predict the existence of gravitational waves.

Right.

But he doesn't think we'll ever detect them.

Of course.

Because the energy level is so low.

How would you detect them?

It's 1916, for goodness sake.

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