Gravitational Waves - A New Era of Astronomy Begins

Gravitational Waves - A New Era of Astronomy Begins

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Brian Greene's Introduction -

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Brian Greene's Introduction -

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Gravitational Waves - A New Era of Astronomy Begins

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  1. 1 Brian Greene's Introduction -
  2. 2 Einsteins prediction of bending light -
  3. 3 Participant Introductions -
  4. 4 Chapter one: The Discovery -
  5. 5 The rumors of a gravitational wave -
  6. 6 How LIGO almost missed the gravitational wave -
  7. 7 BICEP2 and getting it right -
  8. 8 Could we have recreated this experiment without a gravitational wave? -
  9. 9 Chapter two: The Numerical Relativity -
  10. 10 So you detect a gravitational wave, what does that mean? -
  11. 11 Black holes vs Neutron stars -
  12. 12 Chapter three: Detection -
  13. 13 How LIGO Laboratory works -
  14. 14 How do you shield the laser from the other waves in the world? -
  15. 15 The move from LIGO to Advanced LIGO
  16. 16 Giving credit to Barry Barish -
  17. 17 Chapter four: The Future of LIGO
  18. 18 eLISA and a space interferometer -
  19. 19 Mathematically solving the future of colliding black holes

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