Do Gravitational Waves Permanently Alter the Nature of Spacetime?
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On February 11th, 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the first…
On February 11th, 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the first…
Car crashes, nuclear explosions, and even asteroid impacts are relatively puny compared with some of our universe’s other…
When gravitational waves permanently distort space-time, it causes a “memory” signal – which may help LIGO find some of the…
http://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01759 Gravitational-wave memory manifests as a permanent distortion of an idealized…