Posted 12th February 2016:
Big week for Space.
Big week for Space.
Turns out Einstein was right after all (note to self: never doubt anyone called Einstein) and gravitational waves exist. The thing is that they always had to exist because of his theory of relativity. It’s just that now they do. Thank God.
So how did we finally find them? Well, we invented a machine that can detect things that are so small, and happen so quickly, that until recently we were happy to conclude they weren’t there at all. Things less than a thousandth the diameter of an atomic nucleus apparently. Now I’m no expert (despite having the Guardian App on my iphone) but I’m guessing that’s pretty small. Small to the point of not really mattering.
