May 05, 2016

Albert Einstein: Photographic Evidence Reveals His First Prediction Of Gravitational Waves


                                                                       

     
                                                                 



Albert Einstein first predicted the existence of gravitational waves in 1916.
Here’s his original hand-written logic which the genius later converted into a typed manuscript.

This remarkably preserved piece of history is kept at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Albert Einstein Archives, which contains about 55,000 items of Einstein’s work.

In fact, Albert Einstein was one of the university’s first Board of Governors — an influential member who helps run a university — and left all of his personal papers, as well as the copyright to them, to the university in his Will.

Here, the curator for Einstein’s archives, Roni Grosz, points to one of the critical equations from Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, which predicts that two celestial bodies in orbit will generate invisible ripples in spacetime that experts call gravitational waves.


                                                           
     

                                                                     

On Feb. 11, 2016 an international collaboration of scientists working with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced that 100 years after Einstein’s prediction, they had successfully detected a gravitational wave for the first time.
That same day, curator Grosz dug up Einstein’s original manuscripts for gravitational waves, and posed for the camera in celebration of the momentous achievement.

The LIGO team’s discovery not only confirms Einstein’s prediction, but it also opens a new way to study the universe.

Some of the most powerful events in the universe, like two colliding black holes or a supernova explosion, generate powerful gravitational waves. These events are also some of the most mysterious because astrophysicists don’t understand why black holes collide or what triggers a supernova. Gravitational waves could help solve some of these mysteries.

By Jessica Orwig

                                                               

With many thanks to Business Insider
See also:  

The researchers who detected Einstein’s gravitational waves just won a $3 million Breakthrough Prize



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