Featured Vid #288 – Einstein’s Gravitational Waves Discovered

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I realize that this is the second featured video in a row made by the channel The Daily Conversation, but today’s featured video explains an exciting new scientific discovery better than any other video I could find, so I thought I’d feature it right away anyway. The video is on a topic that recently made headlines due to a groundbreaking discovery made in that field: gravitational waves. I won’t go into too much detail on what exactly a gravitational wave is, as the video explains it better than I can, but basically it is a ripple in the universe (Einstein’s spacetime) that is made by a large event releasing a lot of energy; in this case, the merging of two black holes.

Just a couple days ago, researchers at LIGO, a gravitational wave detector facility, announced that they have detected a gravitational wave for the very first time. 100 years after Einstien predicted the phenomenon we proved it’s existence, at the same time proving the rest of Einstien’s theory of General and Special Relativity. It’s already being called the discovery of the century, and The Daily Conversation’s video does a great job of not only explaining what a gravitational wave is but why this discovery is so important.

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