The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 90% confidenceCombines physics with the precision engineering behind one of the most sensitive measurements ever made; filmed with researchers at the detector.
What you'll learn
Explains how LIGO detects gravitational waves by measuring length changes far smaller than a proton.
Video by Veritasium, played through YouTube's embedded player.
Go deeper
- Black Holes and Time Warps, Kip ThorneKip Thorne's popular history of black holes and relativity
- Spacetime and Geometry, Sean CarrollSean Carroll's standard textbook on general relativity
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