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The most ambitious measurement ever made, with Dr. Reitze (Part 2)
Episode 67
Published 9 years, 9 months ago
Description
Dr. Dave Reitze, the Executive Director of LIGO, talks about how each source of noise at LIGO must be meticulously accounted for— from wolves howling, to tidal flexing of the Earth's surface, to the motion of the atoms in the observatory's mirrors.