Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. It is Wednesday, February 17th and I'm your host, Kara Santa Maria.

Now, first, I want to apologize for this week's episode coming out a couple of days late,

but as I promised, it is well worth the weight. This week, I am

chatting with Sarah Gossin, a PhD candidate in the LIGO lab.

So this week is all about gravitational waves.

But before we get started, I do want to thank those of you who made TalkNurdy possible

this week, especially by visiting Patreon.com slash TalkNurdy or by visiting my website Kara Santa Maria.com

and clicking through the links to the store to rate and review and to support the

show in the many ways that you guys do.

So over on the Patreon portal, I would like to thank Phil T-Bare,

the honorable husband, Gabrielle, Felipe Her a meo Gonzalez, Ken Fyfer, Brian Holden,

Jeffrey Sewell, and last but not least I want to thank and give a big birthday shout out to Malcolm Waddie the second.

Thank you guys so very much from the bottom of my heart.

Without you, everybody would have

would not have the pleasure I guess of being able to download the show

100% free.

So thank you for you know helping me keep this model going so that we don't have to have a subscription service.

I don't know, I just, it's just so wonderful to have such a great community of support and of feedback.

So again, I really can't thank you enough. But guys, I think we need to just dive right into this episode

because it's really really exciting.

It's an emotional time in the scientific community right now and here to explain what a gravitational

wave is and exactly how LIGO works and what they discovered is

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