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On Being with Krista Tippett

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Is It an Exciting Day for Physics?

It was a hundred years ago that einstein wrote down the modern equations for gravity, his general relativity theory. Technology has advanced so that we can detect extraordinarily small, subtle effects. Those f gravitational waves that move out, spread like ripples on a pond to far away. But the effects were predicted to be so small, thate einstein himself had no hope they would ever be detected....

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