• Question: what are your feelings about the recent discovery of gravity waves?

    Asked by to Aled, Kev, Willem on 20 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Willem Heijltjes answered on 20 Mar 2014:


      Hi ishanaatkinson!

      I’m thrilled! I’m a big fan of Einstein and his theories of relativity – and this is another discovery that he was right! Also in general, it’s fantastic to think that the idea of gravity waves came purely from doing the maths of Einstein’s equations, and now, after almost a century (!), we have found they are real!

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      Aled Roberts answered on 21 Mar 2014:


      Hey Ishanaatkinson!

      It is exciting stuff! There is no doubt about that! Will has hit the nail on the head re. Eistein’s equation… But on the other side it doesn’t have much impact on what I do on a daily basis as my area of science looks at things that are much bigger in certain aspects! Plus gravity is one of the great mysteries! The more we know the better!

      🙂

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