{"id":95440,"date":"2019-08-28T06:42:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T13:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/to-hunt-gravitational-waves-scientists-had-to-create-the-quietest-spot-on-earth"},"modified":"2019-08-28T06:42:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T13:42:47","slug":"to-hunt-gravitational-waves-scientists-had-to-create-the-quietest-spot-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/to-hunt-gravitational-waves-scientists-had-to-create-the-quietest-spot-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"To Hunt Gravitational Waves, Scientists Had to Create the Quietest Spot on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/to-hunt-gravitational-waves-scientists-had-to-create-the-quietest-spot-on-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LIVINGSTON, La. \u2014 About a mile and a half from a building so big you can see it from space, every car on the road slows to a crawl. Drivers know to take the 10 mph (16 km\/h) speed limit very seriously: That\u2019s because the building houses a massive detector that\u2019s hunting for celestial vibrations at the smallest scale ever attempted. Not surprisingly, it\u2019s sensitive to all earthly vibrations around it, from the rumblings of a passing car to natural disasters on the other side of the globe.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, scientists who work at one of the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) detectors must go to extraordinary lengths to hunt down and remove all potential sources of noise \u2014 slowing down traffic around the detector, monitoring every tiny tremor in the ground, even suspending the equipment from a quadruple pendulum system that minimizes vibrations \u2014 all in the effort to create the most \u201csilent\u201d vibrational spot on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIVINGSTON, La. \u2014 About a mile and a half from a building so big you can see it from space, every car on the road slows to a crawl. Drivers know to take the 10 mph (16 km\/h) speed limit very seriously: That\u2019s because the building houses a massive detector that\u2019s hunting for celestial vibrations [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95440","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=95440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}