NEW Discovery of Gravitational Waves | Podcast

Thanks to the efforts of the U.S. National Science Foundation's NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center a new milestone in gravitational wave detection can be revealed. We speak with Stephen Taylor of Vanderbilt University; Maura McLaughlin of West Virginia University; and Xavier Siemens of Oregon State University, to learn more about their breakthrough.
00:00 New Discovery
01:13 Gravitational Wave Announcement
01:47 What Are Gravitational Waves?
03:32 Detection
05:21 What are Pulsars?
08:17 How We Use Pulsars
10:10 Finding the Pattern
11:32 The Results
13:17 Most Interesting Finding
15:07 Cosmic Orchestra
16:12 Background Noise
18:45 Why Now?
19:49 Partnerships
20:26 Processing Data
22:14 What's Next?

#space #spacefacts #spaceexploration #science #scienceandtechnology #astronomy #astrophysics #discovery #discover #new #news #newstatus #einstein #gravity #gravitation #gravitational_force #ripple #ripples #spacetime #fabric #nsf #podcast #podcaster #podcastshow #podcasts #podcasting #podcastclips