Deciphering Gravitational Waves, with Janna Levin – StarTalk All-Stars

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🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

What is a gravitational wave? Janna Levin and comedian Matt Kirshen sit down with physicist Rainer Weiss to discuss LIGO, black holes, and the physics of gravitational waves.

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:04.3	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.1	StarTalk begins right now.
0:14.2	Welcome to StarTalk All-Stars.
0:16.8	I'm Jan 11, your all-star host for the day.
0:19.6	I'm an astrophysicist and author.
0:22.0	Joining me as co-host is the funny Matt Kirshin, host of Probably Science.
0:27.3	Hi, Matt.
0:27.9	How's it going?
0:28.5	Welcome back.
0:29.4	Thanks for having me back.
0:30.5	It's been like 10 minutes.
0:31.7	Yeah, it's nice to be here in space.
0:33.5	It's great to have you. And I also want to introduce one of my favorite people in the world, joining us in the studio, Ray Weiss.
0:40.6	Oh, thank you, Jonathan.
0:41.5	Otherwise known as Rainer Weiss for long.
0:44.7	Great to have you.
0:46.2	Ray is Professor Meredithus from MIT.
0:48.4	He is also one of the original architects of the LIGO detector, which announced the detection of gravitational waves last year.
0:56.0	It was this year. Why does the prompt say last year?
0:58.3	Well, it happened last year. It happened last year. Sorry, guys. It was one of the most groundbreaking
1:04.1	discoveries of modern astrophysics and very personally important to me. Ray is one of the founders
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