Gravitational Waves Explained Sheffield University

Understand Gravitational Waves and how we’re detecting them with LIGO Scientist Dr Ed Daw, from The University of Sheffield.

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What has LIGO actually seen? LIGO Scientist Dr Ed Daw from The University of Sheffield talks explains how one an extraordinary celestial event from 1.3 billion years ago has delivered a new way of doing astronomy.

Find out what LIGO’s discovery of gravitational waves means for the future of astronomy and the incredible world-wide project to create LIGO’s successor - a telescope in space - from The University of Sheffield’s LIGO scientist Dr Ed Daw.

Albert Einstein is LIGO scientist Dr Ed Daw‘s hero - but why? The University of Sheffield physicist talks gravitational waves, the 100 year journey to prove their existence and the role one of the most important unpublished physics publications in history played in their discovery.

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