{"id":34792,"date":"2018-10-31T13:20:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34792"},"modified":"2018-10-31T13:20:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:50:57","slug":"u-s-trio-wins-physics-nobel-for-gravitational-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-trio-wins-physics-nobel-for-gravitational-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. trio wins physics Nobel for gravitational waves:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/2017-nobel-physics-prize-awarded-to-gravitational-wave-detectors\/article19790468.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">U.S. trio wins physics Nobel for gravitational waves<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phenomenon was predicted by Einstein a century ago as part of his theory.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2017 Nobel Physics Prize was divided, one half awarded to Rainer Weiss, the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They were awarded for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ripples in the fabric of space-time, first predicted a century ago by Albert Einstein, sparked a revolution in astrophysics when their first detection was announced in early 2016.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How were the gravitational waves detected?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Triggered when super-dense black holes merge, the waves were detected using laser beams at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The waves detected by the laureates came from the collision of two black holes some 1.3 billion light years away. A light year is about 9.5 trillion km.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Einstein was convinced that gravitational waves could never be measured. The laureates used laser devices to measure a change thousands of times smaller than an atomic nucleus.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gravitational waves are always created when a mass accelerates, like when an ice-skater pirouettes or a pair of black holes rotates around each other.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. trio wins physics Nobel for gravitational waves: Phenomenon was predicted by Einstein a century ago as part of his theory. Context The 2017 Nobel Physics Prize was divided, one half awarded to Rainer Weiss, the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne They were awarded for decisive contributions to the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-trio-wins-physics-nobel-for-gravitational-waves\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. trio wins physics Nobel for gravitational waves:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704480936},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}