Excited rumors began circulating on Twitter this morning that a major experiment designed to hunt for gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of spacetime first predicted by Albert Einstein—has observed them directly for the very first time. If confirmed, this would be one of the most significant physics discoveries of the last century. Move a large mass very suddenly—or have two massive objects suddenly collide, or a supernova explode—and you would create ripples...
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