Stanley Whitcomb (California Institute of Technology)
07 April 2016, 17:30 to 18:30
Chandrasekhar Auditorium, ICTS, Bangalore
One of the early consequences of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity was the prediction of gravitational waves, but because of their weak effect on matter, they eluded direct detection for nearly a century. On 11 February 2016, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (“LIGO”)...more