A Brief History of Gravitational Waves
Abstract
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.
- Publication:
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Universe
- Pub Date:
- September 2016
- DOI:
- 10.3390/universe2030022
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1609.09400
- Bibcode:
- 2016Univ....2...22C
- Keywords:
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- gravitational waves;
- General Relativity;
- LIGO;
- Einstein;
- strong-field gravity;
- binary black holes;
- Physics - History and Philosophy of Physics;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- 30 pages