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Friday, March 21, 2014

Gravitational Waves Seen in the Polarization of Light From the Big Bang

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THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND The oldest light we can see in the Universe is called the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and it is the...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

Silver and Gold: Clues to the History of Our Solar System

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It's that time of year when many of us are buying gifts for our loved ones.  And there's a song from the old Rudolph the Red-Nosed R...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Living LIGO's Belated 3rd Anniversary

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This past Saturday, 5 October, was the 3rd anniversary of the Living LIGO blog (you can see the first ever post here ).  I remember that be...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

Methods of Detecting Gravitational Waves I: Resonant-Mass Detectors

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As the name of this blog suggests, I use LIGO and similar gravitational-wave detectors (like Virgo and GEO).  These detectors are all interf...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Here's Your Chance to Help LISA Happen!

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A depiction of a LISA satellite with its lasers. I've written about LISA several times on this blog and most of those times the ne...
Friday, March 29, 2013

Black Holes 101

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Most of what I discuss on this blog has to do directly with gravitational waves .  This time I'd like to talk about one of their most ta...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Lessons From My Childhood on How to Teach

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One of the best parts of my job is getting to do outreach.  This is going out and teaching the public about the research that I do.  Since I...