Michelle Thaller
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first heard May 2026
last heard 28 May
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They're measuring things thousands of times smaller than the nucleus of an atom.
But over time, they got this so accurate, they did it so well, that what happened, and you can look up the year, but it was something on the order of about 10 years ago,
A long ways away, millions of light years away, two black holes spiraled together and actually collided to form a big black hole.
That was a lot of gravitational energy.
And that created a ripple going out into the universe.
And so, you know, there's all of the detectors have all this noise in them.
The detectors are detecting all kinds of spurious signals.
But then all of a sudden in Louisiana, there was this, the whole detector went, womp, womp, womp, womp, womp, boom.
And then at the speed of light, the detector in Louisiana did exactly the same thing.
The exact same waves at the speed of light difference.
And we realized, oh, my God, they did it.
These tiny waves, we shouldn't even be able to detect them.
They found them.
And now it's a routine thing.
They've now done this many, many times.
Waves in space and time itself might be the way we can see even farther back into the universe.
Even when the universe becomes opaque to light, waves of space and time can come through.
Gravitational waves can come through that.
And if we can somehow figure out how to make these detectors better and better, could we detect the gravitational waves of the Big Bang?
Can we learn something about that moment by the way it actually bent space and time and created waves of gravity?
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