Physicist, cosmologist, and CSI Fellow Lawrence Krauss of Ari zona State University took the CSICon Sunday morning audience on a fascinating tour of an epic new discovery about the universe— the direct detection of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space-time, predicted by Einstein and sought unsuccessfully ever since. Krauss then compounded the excitement by noting that gravitational wave astronomy may be the astronomy of the twenty-first, twenty-second, and twenty-third centuries. Not too shabby!
Lawrence Krauss
“The two groups hated each other,” Krauss said. So what did they do? They began a collaboration with scientists from both teams reanalyzing the data. That is, Krauss noted, how good science works.