Wave hello

• Autores: Daniel Cossins
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3072, 2016, págs. 33-37
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In 1969, Rainer Weiss was a young MIT professor. At the time gravitational waves were a theoretical curiusity: Albert Einstein himself took years to be convinced by his own prediction that moving cosmic bodies would send out ripples through space-time. Then physicist Joseph Weber claimed to have recorded one on a xylophone-like instrument he called a resonant bar detector. Weiss takes up the story. The discovery of gravitational waves fulfilled a prediction made a century ago by Einstein and was the culmination of decades of experimental work. Here, Cossins spoke to the researchers involved, and also got an insider's view of the detector that finally made the breakthrough