A Quote by Richard P. Feynman

Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea.

Richard P. Feynman

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Richard P. Feynman
American - Physicist
May 11, 1918 - February 15, 1988

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Jonathan Nolan

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Albert Einstein

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Rainer Weiss

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Richard Dawkins

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Rainer Weiss

I thought that there must be an easier way to explain how a gravitational wave interacts with matter: If one just looked at the most primitive thing of all, 3D floating masses out in space, and look at how the space between them changed because of the gravitational wave coming between them.

Rainer Weiss

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Adam Riess

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Ida Rolf

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Barry Barish

It's a spectacular signal. It's a signal many of us have wanted to observe since the time LIGO was proposed. It shows the dynamics of objects in the strongest gravitational fields imaginable, a domain where Newton's gravity doesn't work at all, and one needs the fully non-linear Einstein field equations to explain the phenomena.

Rainer Weiss

This is the first real evidence that we've seen now of high gravitational field strengths: monstrous things like stars moving at the velocity of light, smashing into each other, and making the geometry of space-time turn into some sort of washing machine.

Rainer Weiss

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Rainer Weiss

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Barry Barish

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