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GRAVITATIONAL WAVES, HOW CLOSE ARE WE? PHSCS 222 Collective Paper November 23, 1999 #123 #272 #666 #895 The Detection of Gravitational Waves, How Close Are We? Since the realization that the general theory of relativity predicts gravitational waves, there have been attempts to actually detect these waves. Indirect observations have been made that support their existence but no direct measurement. This paper gives a brief explanation of gravitational waves and discusses the current condition of the experimental search for gravitational waves. It deals with the newest techniques that will enable their detection. The focus of the paper is on three experimental groups: LIGO, VIRGO, and LISA. From our research of these groups…

For 13 years, the scientists of LIGO—the most ambitious, and expensive, project in the history of the National Science Foundation—had been waiting. LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, has been twenty-five years and more than half a billion dollars in the making. It involves 900 scientists and engineers, including many whose entire careers have been spent designing, building, and preparing to analyze data streaming in to LIGO. Their goal: To confirm, once and for all,…

photodetector and it provides some useful information about the properties of the object or phenomenon under test. Interferometers are used to make very small measurements that cannot be achieved with any other method. An important application of interferometry is in the Laser Interferometer Gravitation wave Observatory(LIGO) which is used to detect gravitational waves predicted by Einstein.1.1 The LIGO interferometer is like the Michelson Interferometer as shown in…

Einstein is one of the most well known physicists in history. Around a hundred years ago, Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity was published and some parts of the theory have been proven. However, of February 12th, 2016 the last part of Einstein’s Theory, gravitational waves, was proven by LIGO. For most people this seems to be a minor thing. However this discovery makes a huge difference as it changes the way we can see and explore the universe. For my FD, I want to show how it was proven,…

the aftereffects of them, densely occupy the universe. Black holes are gravitationally massive in a way that is similar but not exactly the same as dark matter. And, although we can detect black holes, we can’t actually see them. This is because a black hole will “continue to pull the mass inward on itself past the point of no return, creating an object of infinite density, a warp in spacetime so severe that not even light evan escape from within it”(Gates, 114). LIGO, the Laser…

and discussing the books has been my understanding of the cosmos and its origin, which is now commonly referred to as The Big Bang Theory. At present, only the Big Bang Theory seeks to explain the origin of the universe in the most convincing way, taking refuge in logic, reasoning and cognition. Thousands of generations have passed staring up into space, trying to make sense out of it. Ours, however, is the first generation that can successfully claim to have understood the universe and its…

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compact objects that might be formed by gravitational collapse. In 1963 Roy Kerr found the exact solution for rotating black holes, Ezra Newman found the asymmetric solution for a black hole that is both rotating and electrically charged. Werner Israel, Brandon Carter and David Robinson all worked together to form the the no-hair theorem which states that a stationary black hole solution is completely described by The Kerr-Newman Metric: mass, angular momentum and electrical charge. Basically…

2008. His poem “Maririing Tusok ng Kalawanging Karayom sa Nagngangalit na Ugat” won 1st place in the National Contest on Poetry Writing of Pandaylapi Ink in 1995. He was also awarded the Gawad Balagtas in 1996, Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in 2006, and Gawad Soc Rodrigo in 2007. He was also a fellow in UP-ICW Writers Workshop in 2007. Among his other works are “Tatlong Gabi, Tatlong Araw,” “It's Not That Complicated: Bakit Hindi pa Sasakupin ng mga Alien ang Daigdig sa 2012,”…

We’re currently in the technology era, with new things being developed and discovered almost every day. Something crazy is always in the works and the next big technology always seems to be right around the corner. Self-driving cars and iPhones aside, some of the biggest advancements are happening in the industry of space exploration and physics. SpaceX just recently landed a launched rocket safely onto a barge out in the ocean, LIGO discovered that Einstein’s predicted gravitational waves are…