This is now the new picture on the door leading into my lab. flopthebeat: Concretamente el neutron
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This is now the new picture on the door leading into my lab.

flopthebeat:

Concretamente el neutron

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(image via www.jpl.nasa.gov) In 1915, Albert Einstein introduced a new way of looking at the universe called the General Theory of Relativity.  General Relativity concerns itself with the way space-time might deform in the presence of massive objects like a star or a black hole.  Unlike its older cousin, which deals with inertial reference frames, Einstein’s general theorem remains largely untested because it’s hard to come up with a good test that we can carry out on Earth.   Einstein gave today’s scientists a hint on how to test his theory, however.  He guessed that the formation of a Black Hole or a similarly massive object would create ripples in space-time, sort of like how a pebble dropped in a pond will create ripples which radiate out from where it fell.  Black Holes might sing in space-time from the moment of their birth on into eternity.   A proposed JPL project, called LISA, will launch three separate space probes out into orbit around the Sun.  They will communicate with each other using lasers capable of measuring picometer (.000000000001 meters) changes in the distance between the satellites.  Back on Earth, scientists will listen to these changes in distance for the tell-tale song of Black Holes and other massive heavenly bodies in the hope of confirming Einstein’s theory.
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In 1915, Albert Einstein introduced a new way of looking at the universe called the General Theory of Relativity.  General Relativity concerns itself with the way space-time might deform in the presence of massive objects like a star or a black hole.  Unlike its older cousin, which deals with inertial reference frames, Einstein’s general theorem remains largely untested because it’s hard to come up with a good test that we can carry out on Earth.  

Einstein gave today’s scientists a hint on how to test his theory, however.  He guessed that the formation of a Black Hole or a similarly massive object would create ripples in space-time, sort of like how a pebble dropped in a pond will create ripples which radiate out from where it fell.  Black Holes might sing in space-time from the moment of their birth on into eternity.  

A proposed JPL project, called LISA, will launch three separate space probes out into orbit around the Sun.  They will communicate with each other using lasers capable of measuring picometer (.000000000001 meters) changes in the distance between the satellites.  Back on Earth, scientists will listen to these changes in distance for the tell-tale song of Black Holes and other massive heavenly bodies in the hope of confirming Einstein’s theory.

Source: jpl.nasa.gov