Gravitational Waves: A New Era of Astronomy Begins
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This program will feature exclusive footage from director Les Guthman’s upcoming documentary chronicling the drama of the gravitational waves discovery.
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Original Program Date: June 4, 2016
MODERATOR: Brian Greene
PARTICIPANTS: Barry Barish, Nergis Mavalvala, Frans Pretorius, David Shoemaker, Rai Weiss
Brian Greene's Introduction - 00:15
Einsteins prediction of bending light - 5:58
Participant Introductions - 9:55
Chapter one: The Discovery - 11:37
The rumors of a gravitational wave - 14:40
How LIGO almost missed the gravitational wave - 19:16
BICEP2 and getting it right - 22:34
Could we have recreated this experiment without a gravitational wave? - 27:09
Chapter two: The Numerical Relativity - 29:30
So you detect a gravitational wave, what does that mean? - 31:58
Black holes vs Neutron stars - 48:12
Chapter three: Detection - 54:31
How lLIGO Laboratory works - 1:04:06
How do you shield the laser from the other waves in the world? - 1:09:00
The move from LIGO to Advanced LIGO 1:12:24
Giving credit to Barry Barish - 1:20:04
Chapter four: The Future of LIGO 1:24:40
eLISA and a space interferometer - 1:27:40
Mathematically solving the future of colliding black holes 1:32:00
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