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November 17, 2009
Prof. Nils Andersson, School of Mathematics, University of Southampton
Gravitational Waves

venue Soul Cellar, Central Soton


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November 17, 2009

Prof. Nils Andersson, School of Mathematics, University of Southampton

Gravitational Waves
With his theory of General Relativity, Einstein provided us with a new
understanding of gravity. The key idea of the theory is that what we
experience as gravity is, in fact, due to the geometry of space and time.
Moreover, these concepts are no longer fixed as in Newton's physics. One of
the most intriguing implications is that changes in gravity should move as
waves. These "gravitational waves" would carry the imprint of the most
violent phenomena we can think of, like colliding or exploding stars and
even the birth of the Universe itself. In this talk I will describe the
ongoing effort aimed at detecting these elusive waves and what we expect to
learn from such observations in the future.