Thousands join hunt for gravitational waves
15 Mar 2005 5:44:00 UTC
Topic 188537
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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7139
"On Monday 14 March, the 126th anniversary of Albert Einstein's birth, over 50,000 people around the world are helping in the hunt for the gravitational waves predicted by the great physicist nearly a century ago....Users' computers may spend weeks analysing 12-megabyte chunks of data from the US Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) and the British-German GEO-600 gravitational wave observatory...."
Thousands join hunt for gravitational waves
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"The Science Show", on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National:
"Summary
"Could it be that there are still papers written by Einstein that haven’t been examined? Kip Thorne, one of the world's great physicists says, Yes.
"From the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting:
Richard Wolfson gives an executive summary of General Relativity - in 5 minutes.
"Barry Barish on the search for gravity waves.
"Bruce Allen explains the Einstein @ Home project and how we can all join in.
"Sean Carroll looks at what we knew 100 years ago and what is being done in fundamental physics today."
Transcript: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ss/stories/s1317368.htm
RealMedia: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ss/audio/science_05032005_2856.ram
WindowsMedia: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ss/audio/science_05032005_28M.asx
(The audio won't last, so listen now! The transcript will remain.)
Look here, brother, who you jiving with that cosmic debris?--Frank Zappa.