
Episode 536: Ryan Magee on Software Engineering in Physics Research
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How Do You Measure Gravitational Waves?
Gravitational waves are ripples in space time that propagate through our universe at the speed of light. Because they're so weak, we need to come up with these very advanced ways to detect them. The only measured way is whenever we have two very dense objects that wind up orbiting one another and eventually colliding into one another.
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