SCIENCE A conference must make progress on this central element of Einstein’s theory …
the rumors are almost worthy of output of an iPhone. The excitement is palpable in the scientific community so that a press conference will be held Thursday in Washington around the centennial quest to confirm the existence of gravitational waves. And after the rustling of recent weeks, the timing seems perfect, especially as a publication is planned in the magazine Nature the same day.
According to the American National Foundation Science (NSF), scientists from Caltech, MIT and Ligo (Laser Interferometer gravitational-wave Observatory) will “take stock of the research effort to detect gravitational waves using Ligo.”
After the speculations of an American researcher, mid-January, an email from Cliff Burgess theoretical physicist was posted on Twitter last week. He says that “spies” have read the study in question, and that the existence of gravitational waves was confirmed by observation of the merger of two black holes, which would have distorted the curvature of spacetime.
Basically, the theory of general relativity of Einstein, the great mass of objects launched at full speed generate gravitational waves, like a pebble in a pond surface. With Ligo, scientists seek to measure a tiny gap between two points, the order of a thousandth of a billionth of a billionth of meter, according to the CNRS. Not easy, especially in the midst of many parasites.
If the theory is confirmed, it would be possible to build new telescopes to observe the cosmos through the glasses of gravitational astronomy, a discipline to the potential poorly measured. See you Thursday
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