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The question on the lips of participants of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting was not if the detectors of gravitational waves would win a nobel prize for their work. It was a matter of when. The Nobel prize for physics will be announced within the next 100 days. On 11 February this year, scientists from…
This was perhaps the worst-kept secret in all of science: the detection of gravitational waves. It has been seeping out of sources like leaky taps. But on 11 February, it was finally announced that scientists had detected gravitational waves. Gravitational waves are distortions in space and time that – rather than the force of “gravity”…