{"id":77836,"date":"2018-04-16T02:22:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T09:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/a-city-sized-telescope-could-watch-space-time-ripple-1-million-times-a-year"},"modified":"2018-04-16T02:22:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T09:22:48","slug":"a-city-sized-telescope-could-watch-space-time-ripple-1-million-times-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/a-city-sized-telescope-could-watch-space-time-ripple-1-million-times-a-year","title":{"rendered":"A City-Sized \u2018Telescope\u2019 Could Watch Space-Time Ripple 1 Million Times a Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-city-sized-telescope-could-watch-space-time-ripple-1-million-times-a-year.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014 A gravitational wave detector that\u2019s 2.5 miles long isn\u2019t cool. You know what\u2019s cool? A 25-mile-long gravitational wave detector.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the upshot of a series of talks given here Saturday (April 14) at the April meeting of the American Physical Society. The next generation of gravitational wave detectors will peer right up to the outer edge of the observable universe, looking for ripples in the very fabric of space-time, which Einstein predicted would occur when massive objects like black holes collide. But there are still some significant challenges standing in the way of their construction, presenters told the audience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current detectors you might think are very sensitive,\u201d Matthew Evans, a physicist at MIT, told the audience. \u201cAnd that\u2019s true, but they\u2019re also the least sensitive detectors with which you can [possibly] detect gravitational waves.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/58245-theory-of-relativity-in-real-life.html\">8 Ways You Can See Einstein\u2019s Theory of Relativity in Real Life<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/62308-cosmic-explorer-einstein-telescope-gravitational-waves.html\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/62308-cosmic-explorer-einstein-t...waves.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014 A gravitational wave detector that\u2019s 2.5 miles long isn\u2019t cool. You know what\u2019s cool? A 25-mile-long gravitational wave detector. That\u2019s the upshot of a series of talks given here Saturday (April 14) at the April meeting of the American Physical Society. The next generation of gravitational wave detectors will peer right up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}