Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory or LIGO

MIT professor Rainer Weiss dreamed up the idea behind an antennae so sensitive it could detect faint invisible ripples in space and time.

A physicist who proved Einstein right started by tinkering with the family record player

September 28, 2016Global Politics

He’s helping to uncover the origins of the universe with a massive antenna so sensitive it detected faint invisible ripples in space from 1.3 billion years ago.