Having traveled for 1.3 billion years, gravitational wave has witnessed many sparkling moments of human’s thoughts and imaginations. On the way of exploration, please feel free to click through the images you encounter. Now scroll down and wish you have a safe journey!
A Journey of
Gravitational
Wave
1687
Isaac Newton
“By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies inversely as the square of the distance. The law thus suggested is assumed to be universally true.“
--Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
1911
Ralph 124C 41+:
By Hugo Gernsback
The first science fiction that puts forward the concept of gravitational wave.
1916
Albert Einstein
"Massive accelerating objects (such as neutron stars or black holes orbiting each other) would disrupt space-time in such a way that 'waves' of distorted space would radiate from the source (like the movement of waves away from a stone thrown into a pond)."
--Naeherungsweise Integration der Feldgleichungen der Gravitation
1966
The discovery of Graviational Wave supports the hypothesis of time-space travel, like the "Warp Drive" in Star Trek series.
2014
In the movie Interstellar, Cooper, a father and astronaut, was stuck in a tesseract in the cosmos. He used gravitational wave to send data back to Earth to his scientist daughter Murph, which assisted her to save not only himself but also the world.
Game Time!
The books in Murph's room were actually used for receiving the gravitational waves.
Drag the books to another box and keep the volume numbers in an ascending order!
2015
From left to right: Rainer Weiss, Kip S. Thorne and Barry C. Barish.
Founders of LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory.
After 1.3-billion-year travel, the gravitational waves were finally detected by LIGO on September 14, a mermoable day.
A new way to study our universe
With the crucial information brought by gravitational waves, sooner or later, we’ll finally know the very first moments of the universe and its mysterious era of inflation.
