If a gravitational wave washes over Earth and goes through this facility, one of those beams will be slightly delayed compared to the other. And so they're looking for a variation in a fraction of the diameter of a proton. If the light recombines perfectly, then nothing happened between those two reflections. Of course, it tells you that the thing actually happened.

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