Deciphering Gravitational Waves, with Janna Levin - StarTalk Allstars

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🗓️ 4 October 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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What are gravitational waves, and what can they tell us about our universe? In her first outing as StarTalk All-Star host, cosmologist Janna Levin untangles the astrophysics with help from LIGO co-founder Rainer Weiss and comic co-host Matt Kirshen.

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0:00.0	This is startup.
0:03.0	Welcome to StarTalk All Stars.
0:11.2	I'm Jan 11, your Allstar host for the day.
0:13.9	I'm an astrophysicist and author joining me as co-host is the funny Matt Kirsten host
0:20.6	of Probably Science.
0:21.6	Hi Matt.
0:22.6	How's it going?
0:23.6	Welcome back.
0:24.6	Thanks for having me back.
0:25.6	It's been like ten minutes.
0:26.6	Nice to be here in space.
0:28.2	It's great to have you.
0:29.7	And I also want to introduce one of my favorite people
0:32.3	in the world joining us in the studio Ray Weiss.
0:35.1	Oh, thank you, John.
0:36.0	Otherwise known as Rayner Weiss.
0:37.8	For long.
0:39.4	Great to have you.
0:40.7	Ray is Professor Meredith from MIT.
0:43.2	He is also one of the original architects of the LIGO
0:46.5	detector, which announced the detection
0:48.8	of gravitational waves last year.
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