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08-12-2016, 11:40 PM
This is one of the best gravitational waves explainers we've seen
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In the distant reaches of the cosmos, two black holes collide and merge in a violent crash. We can't see it or feel it, but the shock of that collision sends ripples propagating far and wide through the fabric of space and time.*
Those distortions, k**wn as gravitational waves, affect every molecule they come across — warping their size by a fraction of a proton. However, those changes are only detectible by some of the most highly calibrated and sensitive tools ever built by humans.
SEE ALSO: Einstein was right: Scientists detect gravitational waves for the first time (http://mashable.com/2016/02/11/einstein-gravitational-waves-detection/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
But what would those ripples in space-time look like if we could see them? Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/12/gravitational-waves-video-explainer/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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In the distant reaches of the cosmos, two black holes collide and merge in a violent crash. We can't see it or feel it, but the shock of that collision sends ripples propagating far and wide through the fabric of space and time.*
Those distortions, k**wn as gravitational waves, affect every molecule they come across — warping their size by a fraction of a proton. However, those changes are only detectible by some of the most highly calibrated and sensitive tools ever built by humans.
SEE ALSO: Einstein was right: Scientists detect gravitational waves for the first time (http://mashable.com/2016/02/11/einstein-gravitational-waves-detection/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
But what would those ripples in space-time look like if we could see them? Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/12/gravitational-waves-video-explainer/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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