Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 awarded for: LIGO and gravitational waves

There is a Live stream for the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics,

The prize was given for:

“decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”

Wikipedia links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave

The Nobel Laureates in Physics 2017 are:


Rainer Weiss

Wikipedia link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Weiss

Prize share:1/2


Barry C. Barish

Wikipedia link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Barish

Prize share:1/4


Kip S. Thorne

Wikipedia link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_Thorne

Prize share:1/4


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These guys are so elite that Rainer Weiss stating that he had managed to even put some clothes on went very elite like :weary::ok_hand:

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Pure classy humor :smiley:

Let go my LIGO!

If anyone interested there is an article on LIGO in the astronomy thread

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Ligo gets a workout again, this time it gets to coordinate with other instruments with 2 neutron stars colliding .

Some background info

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the thing

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Lmao that first QA is hilarious because its partially Skype from Australian hotel, could not continue after first drop and I skipped forward to next section :smiley:

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