they just announced this…

Breaking News: After Decades of speculation Einstein’s theory is proven right.  The theory is about gravitational waves and the first experiment involving this had to do with two pocket watches.  One was flown around the world and one was on the ground.  When they were matched up there was a slight variation.  However, the waves have never been detected.  Here is a brief background:

According to Einstein’s theory, the fabric of space-time can become curved by anything massive in the Universe. When cataclysmic events happen, such as black holes merging or stars exploding, these curves can ripple out elsewhere as gravitational waves, just like if someone had dropped a stone in a pond.

By the time those ripples get to us on Earth, they’re tiny (around a billionth of the diameter of an atom), which is why scientists have struggled for so many years to find them.

But thanks to LIGO – the laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory – we’ve finally been able to detect them. The LIGO laboratory works by bouncing lasers back and forth in two 4-km-long pipes, allowing physicists to measure incredibly small changes in spacetime.

Let’s find out more about this insane detection on page 2

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