Aspects of materials research for advanced and future generations of gravitational wave detectors
Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein, in his General Theory of Relativity in 1916. These waves can be thought of as ripples in the curvature of space-time. They have not yet been directly detected but strong indirect evidence of their existence was provided by Hulse and Taylor when they me...
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University of Glasgow
2012
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