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VIDEO CuriosityStream How The LIGO's Discovery Validated Einstein's Theory TV commercial 2024 • How The LIGO's Discovery Validated Einstein's Theory | Breakthrough Experience the ground-breaking moment when the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected faint disturbances from deep space, validating Albert Einstein's theories and opening a new window on the cosmos. Understand the January 2017 discovery, and how these gravitational waves provide a front-row seat to the events of the Big Bang. Follow the journey of this remarkable discovery and understand how it brings the universe closer, unveiling the intricate dance of gravitational waves. Join us to explore the profound implications of this monumental achievement in astronomy and physics. Watch the full documentary: https://curiositystream.com/video/1915 Breakthrough, Gravitational Waves: Rewinding Time Gravitational Waves from three billion light years away have reached Earth -- the latest discovery from a new branch of astronomy that one day could give us a front-row seat to the Big Bang. #CuriosityStream #BigBang #Einstein #Gravity 0:11 the universe just got a little 0:14 smaller Albert Einstein got a little 0:18 smarter and astronomers opened a window 0:22 on the cosmos that could give us a front 0:25 row seat to the Big Bang 0:36 in January 0:38 2017 alarms sounded at the most 0:41 sensitive scientific devices ever 0:45 constructed in Washington state the 0:47 laser interferometer gravitational wave 0:50 Observatory ligo detected faint 0:54 disturbances from deep 0:56 space 10 milliseconds later the sign hit 1:00 Lio sister facility in 1:05 Louisiana gravitational waves had 1:08 reached 1:09 earth gravitational waves are ripples in 1:13 SpaceTime that come about when massive 1:16 objects 1:17 accelerate they tell you things about 1:19 the nature of the universe that you 1:21 can't get from any other 1:24 source these waves told a story from 3 1:28 billion years ago 1:31 A Tale of Two monstrous black holes on a 1:34 collision 1:36 course during that fraction of a second 1:38 when these two black holes were coming 1:40 together and merging the power output 1:43 was greater than all of the Luminous 1:46 output of all the stars in the 1:48 observable universe 1:52 [Music] 2:00 a century ago Einstein predicted the 2:03 existence of gravitational waves but 2:06 even he thought they would never be 2:09 detected they are vanishingly faint pass 2:13 through objects and are invisible to 2:16 Optical and radio 2:21 telescopes the first time I heard about 2:24 ligo my reaction is this is crazy it 2:27 will never work 2:30 so with ligo we're using laser beams to 2:32 measure the distance between mirrors 2:34 with Incredible Precision we've 2:36 basically built the world's best ruler 2:40 ever ligo shoots synchronized lasers 2:43 down intersecting vacuum tubes each over 2:47 2 mi long as a wave passes it stretches 2:51 SpaceTime shrinking or expanding one arm 2:54 of the L and throwing the beams out of 2:58 alignment the system can measure changes 3:01 as small as 1 1,000th of a 3:06 [Music] 3:11 proton gravitational waves are 3:13 remarkably hearty a kind of cosmic DNA 3:17 they carry exact portraits of their 3:21 Origins we received a perfect signal 3:24 from this last merger exactly matching 3:26 the predictions of Einstein's theory it 3:28 traveled 3 bill light years to get here 3:31 so that's telling us that it didn't 3:33 distort on its way it didn't 3:37 disperse ligo has already registered 3:40 three events suggesting that the massive 3:43 release of energy may be relatively 3:45 common Across the Universe in any given 3:48 Galaxy one of these events might only 3:50 happen once every million years but 3:52 we're now able to monitor about 10 3:54 million galaxies at a time it's a new 3:57 type of astronomy 4:00 ligo is the first generation of 4:02 gravitational wave 4:05 astronomy eventually detectors will be 4:08 built in space instruments of near 4:11 perfect Precision free of interference 4:14 exploring the dawn of 4:18 time one of the ways that gravitational 4:21 waves could really 4:22 revolutionize our understanding of the 4:25 universe is if we could see 4:27 gravitational waves from The Big Bang 4:30 it's going to allow us to peer back to 4:32 the beginning of the birth of the 4:33 universe in a way that no other kind of 4:34 astronomy can gravitation ways can go 4:37 right back to the beginning of time so 4:38 we could see the birth of the universe 4:42 [Music] - advertisement spot 2024