A Brief History of Gravitational Waves

This review describes the discovery of gravitational waves. We recount the journey of predicting and finding those waves, since its beginning in the early twentieth century, their prediction by Einstein in 1916, theoretical and experimental blunders, efforts towards their detection, and finally the...

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Published inUniverse (Basel) Vol. 2; no. 3; p. 22
Main Authors Cervantes-Cota, Jorge, Galindo-Uribarri, Salvador, Smoot, George
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.09.2016
MDPI
Subjects
binary black holes
Black holes
Einstein
General Relativity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Gravitational waves
Lasers
LIGO
Observatories
Physics
Sensors
strong-field gravity
Theory of relativity
Hong Kong China
Mexico
United States > US
China
Einstein
gravitational radiation: emission
General Relativity
gravitational radiation
LIGO
gravitational waves
strong-field gravity
binary black holes
gravitation: strong field
history
gravitational radiation detector
black hole: binary
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Summary:This review describes the discovery of gravitational waves. We recount the journey of predicting and finding those waves, since its beginning in the early twentieth century, their prediction by Einstein in 1916, theoretical and experimental blunders, efforts towards their detection, and finally the subsequent successful discovery.
ISSN:2218-1997
2218-1997
DOI:10.3390/universe2030022