Scientists Detect Gravitational Waves in Landmark Discovery

Gravity waves, one of Albert Einstein's most interesting predictions about the weirdness of space time, have been an elusive but accepted element of the theory of general relativity.  Now it looks like a coalition of scientists from CalTech, MIT, and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration has finally found them.  And it only took a century. Researchers on Thursday likened the discovery to the difference between looking at a piece of music on paper and then hearing it in real...

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