PUBLIC LECTURE: UWA Albany Public Lecture
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Einstein’s gravitational waves have been directly detected, one century after his original prediction. The waves are ripples of space and time that travel through empty space at the speed of light. The discovery, which was heard as a brief chirp, confirms our ability to obtain new understanding of the universe from the gravitational wave sounds it creates. More and more sounds will become audible to gravitational wave detectors as the detectors are improved in the next few years.
The discovery of Einstein’s waves confirms that space itself is a continually rippling medium, that geometry itself is fluctuating. It confirms that a substantial amount of matter in the universe has been lost into black holes, and that black holes are growing. Many fundamental questions have now come within reach.
This talk will be an overview of gravitational waves, their momentous discovery, and predictions of future discoveries.
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