WSU: 100 Years of Gravitational Waves with Rai Weiss

Nobel laureate Rai Weiss is best known as one of the original creators of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Join him as he explores the history of this amazing project and the technology that made it a reality. #WorldSciU

This lecture was filmed on May 30, 2015 at the World Science Festival in New York City.

0:00 - Start
From Einstein to LIGO - 00:00:05

Turning a Thought Experiment into Reality - 00:20:04

LIGO's Success - 00:38:54

[dustman]

This was awesome. I got blasted, much of it beyond my understanding, but came out of it knowing a lot more than before. I can tell this guy really knows his field, and is excited about it.

[charliemiskwaabineshii]

Relly awesome i knew very little of this before now. Thank you for getting lay people into science more..my grandkids thank you also!

[gerardbiddle]

Thank you Maria Spiropulu for this fascinating presentation incorporating the Higgs bosons particles in the in future direction of particles physics and condensed phases in the and symmetry issues ahead.

[SernasHeptaDimesionalSpace]

Just a small spark distorts space to me, even light gets distorted by light.

[salmanrazmi]

Thank you for a great lecture, you are wonderful teacher. It’s amazing how physics of gravitational wave is expanding our horizon to understand the universe.

[wraithofsolidarity]

Pre-CMB stuff is gonna be awesome to know. Are we collapsing the wave by measuring it?

[RStell-wtqr]

I didn't know Einstein's wrote a paper in 2016.

[mscir]

He's not a very good speaker, he sounds doddering, mentioning important things almost as an afterthought at times, and his voice quavers sometimes, distracting.