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It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

- Barry Barish
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It's very difficult to tell when you're successful, because it's so hard to make measurements.

The fact that people can predict gravity wave sources that are within shouting distance makes me feel incredibly confident. Compared to monopoles, these sources are not just optimistic thinking.

The size of the effect that we measured from the first event, the merging of two black holes, the actual size of the signal was about one thousandth the size of a proton, what it did to our apparatus.

The waves are subtle, altering spacetime and the distance between objects as far apart as the Earth and the Moon by much less than the width of an atom. As such, gravitational radiation has not been directly detected yet. We hope to change that soon.

It's crazy that we happen to have a country where it depends on what political party you are in whether you believe in climate change or not.

The most exciting science requires the most complex instruments.

Everything we know about the universe is studied by using telescopes or other instruments that look at visible light, infrared, ultraviolet or X-ray - different wavelengths of electromagnetic interactions. Only 4 percent of what's in the universe gives off electromagnetic radiation, so we don't have any handle on the rest.

I actually spent a lot of time reading about how professional managers work. And how people build bridges.

I think there's a bit of truth that LIGO wouldn't be here if I didn't do it, so I don't think I'm undeserving.

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It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.