{"id":92900,"date":"2019-06-30T19:43:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T02:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/laser-interferometry-and-gravitational-wave-astronomy"},"modified":"2019-06-30T19:43:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T02:43:01","slug":"laser-interferometry-and-gravitational-wave-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/laser-interferometry-and-gravitational-wave-astronomy","title":{"rendered":"Laser Interferometry and Gravitational Wave Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laser-interferometry-and-gravitational-wave-astronomy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Division focuses on the detection of gravitational waves and the development of gravitational-wave astronomy. This comprises the development and operation of large gravitational-wave detectors on the ground as well as in space, but also a full range of supporting laboratory experiments in quantum optics and laser physics.<\/p>\n<p>According to Einstein\u00b4s theory of General Relativity, accelerated masses produce gravitational waves \u2013 perturbations of spacetime propagating at the speed of light through the universe, unhindered by intervening mass. The direct observation of gravitational waves on September 14, 2015 added a new sense to our perception of the Universe.<\/p>\n<p>In the future, we will for the first time <em>listen<\/em> to the Universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Division focuses on the detection of gravitational waves and the development of gravitational-wave astronomy. This comprises the development and operation of large gravitational-wave detectors on the ground as well as in space, but also a full range of supporting laboratory experiments in quantum optics and laser physics. According to Einstein\u00b4s theory of General Relativity, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92900","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\/526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}