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Article: A place of utmost gravity.(Higher Education)(The LIGO site in Washington is hoping to be the first to prove Einstein's theory)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- May 22, 2005
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Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard
RICHLAND, Wash. - To the naked eye, the only waves that splash this V-shaped building set among the remnants of the Hanford nuclear reservation come from wind blowing off the Palouse and pushing piles of tumbleweeds up against anything that stands still.
But inside is one of the most sensitive scientific instruments ever built. Its two shafts each stretch out four kilometers into the Eastern Washington desert, housing laser beams tuned to detect a kind of wave whose crest would rise just a small fraction of the width of the nucleus of an atom.
It is the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory - ...