Gravitational Waves Found: Kip Thorne Explains
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Scientific American
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🗓️ 11 February 2016
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming. |
| 0:02.3 | Hiya. |
| 0:02.9 | So, Benny has really blossomed this term. |
| 0:05.6 | You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay. |
| 0:09.6 | Oh, that's not quite what I meant. |
| 0:11.1 | It's free to sell on there? |
| 0:12.3 | Free to sell? |
| 0:13.4 | Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket. |
| 0:16.8 | You sold my guitar? |
| 0:19.9 | Shall we talk about Benning? |
| 0:22.1 | When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay. |
| 0:26.7 | Things people love. T's and Cs apply, exclusive vehicles. |
| 0:33.9 | Hi, Steve Murski here for Scientific American Science Talk. It's February 11, 2016. When hundreds of |
| 0:41.2 | reporters and a throng of TV cameras jostle one another to get a good view in the National |
| 0:46.8 | Press Club in Washington, D.C., you figure maybe the president is talking. But today it was |
| 0:52.1 | astrophysicists. And the throng had gathered because the |
| 0:55.7 | researchers were announcing that they finally had evidence for gravitational waves, the first |
| 1:01.7 | observation of ripples in the fabric of space and time, thus confirming Einstein's prediction |
| 1:07.4 | of their existence a century ago. The gravitational waves in question |
| 1:11.7 | emanated from the collision of two black holes, some 1.3 billion light years away, which means |
| 1:17.8 | the collision took place 1.3 billion years ago, but the waves only arrived at our planet a few |
| 1:23.0 | months back. They were noticed by an experiment called LIGO for laser interferometer gravitational |
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