Spåtind 2018 - Nordic Conference on Particle Physics

Session

100 years of gravitational waves: history and discovery

3 Jan 2018, 20:45

Skeikampen, Norway

Conveners

100 years of gravitational waves: history and discovery: evening presentation

• Fawad Hassan (Stockholm University)

60. 100 years of gravitational waves - history and discovery

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...