About that big discovery last week.

This is one which we have been expecting for some time. I first read about the LIGO experiment some twenty years ago when it had just started construction and I was a young student dreaming about doing a summer placement in California—which turned out to be just a dream, but it was fun perusing the lists of student projects on offer at Caltech.

Read More

The Guardian posted an article today in which they had four physicists try to explain the idea of (newly-discovered) gravitational waves to a five year old. My feeling is that this met with varying levels of success. (These are professional physicists, after all.)

Read More