Conveners
100 years of gravitational waves: history and discovery: evening presentation
- Fawad Hassan (Stockholm University)
Prof.
Christopher Messenger
(University of Glasgow)
03/01/2018, 20:45
In 1916 Albert Einstein showed that gravitational waves were a natural consequence of his theory of general relativity (GR) . Nothing much was done about this feature of GR until the 1950s since it was deemed to be either an unphysical mathematical oddity or simply too unfathomably small to ever be useful. In fact, if they were to ever be detected then the only things in the universe that...
