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