Gravitational Wave Hunt
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I read this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-41420188 about Gravitational Wave hunting and then had to reread one particular part again as it is simply staggering.
The phrase that blows my mind is;
"the distortions are minute - the entire Earth is stretched and squeezed by less than the width of an atom."
Read that and then think about it, designing an experiment to measure an effect which when measured across the entire planet is less than the width of one atom - still mind blown.
S
The phrase that blows my mind is;
"the distortions are minute - the entire Earth is stretched and squeezed by less than the width of an atom."
Read that and then think about it, designing an experiment to measure an effect which when measured across the entire planet is less than the width of one atom - still mind blown.
S
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