The way that it was announced was like a press conference from an awesome 80s movie. We have detected gravitational waves. I mean, how cute is that? So that was Dave Ritzy. He's a laser physicist and he's director of the Lego lab. And so when you have really massive objects moving really quickly, that can make large disturbances relative to other things. They're not like ripples on a pond; they're actually distorting your shape.
Stars. Black holes. THE GAWDANG UNIVERSE. Astrophysicist and cosmologist Katie Mack (@astrokatie) joins to tell us her most embarrassing moments as a cosmologist, to debunk some physicist myths and give the nuts + bolts of everything form particle physics to gravitational waves and existential mysteries. Walk away with cocktail party comprehension of everything from the itty-bitty quarks that make you to the neutron stars banging together across the cosmos. More than anything, get perspective about your life on this, our little pale blue dot.
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