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    Scientists announced the discovery of gravitational waves, which were first predicted by Einstein over 100 years ago. Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime caused by massive accelerating objects like colliding black holes or neutron stars. On February 11, scientists detected gravitational waves using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), which precisely measures tiny spacetime distortions caused by passing gravitational waves. LIGO's detection provides the first direct evidence of gravitational waves and supports Einstein's theory of general relativity.

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    Gravitational Waves Detected

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    Scientists announced the discovery of gravitational waves, which were first predicted by Einstein over 100 years ago. Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime caused by massive accelerating objects like colliding black holes or neutron stars. On February 11, scientists detected gravitational waves using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), which precisely measures tiny spacetime distortions caused by passing gravitational waves. LIGO's detection provides the first direct evidence of gravitational waves and supports Einstein's theory of general relativity.

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    Scientists announced the discovery of gravitational waves, which were first predicted by Einstein over 100 years ago. Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime caused by massive accelerating objects like colliding black holes or neutron stars. On February 11, scientists detected gravitational waves using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), which precisely measures tiny spacetime distortions caused by passing gravitational waves. LIGO's detection provides the first direct evidence of gravitational waves and supports Einstein's theory of general relativity.

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    Scientists announced the discovery of gravitational waves, which were first predicted by Einstein over 100 years ago. Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime caused by massive accelerating objects like colliding black holes or neutron stars. On February 11, scientists detected gravitational waves using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), which precisely measures tiny spacetime distortions caused by passing gravitational waves. LIGO's detection provides the first direct evidence of gravitational waves and supports Einstein's theory of general relativity.

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    Gravitational waves detected

    :Intro
    On Thursday 11 Feb, the physics community was just
    getting nervous and excitement level was in its full
    potential, it was all about General relativity last
    .predictions, it was all about Gravitiational waves
    And when it finally a discovery of these waves we were allproud to be humans and live to see these great moments
    .of the history of science
    Ladies and gentlemen, we have discovered gravitational "
    waves, we did it" by these words David Reitzi start his talk
    in the press , he announced that we have finally discover
    the gravitational waves which Albert Einstein predicted in
    . his general theory of relativity before 100 year
    But what is the importance of this discovery and what
    about black holes, it might be an interesting note also to
    know that this discovery also has a relation with these
    .fancy objects called black holes

    :Gravitational waves History


    In a message to his son, Einstein said, "things that I have
    got from hard work will not be useful for strangers, but
    also for my sons, in last few days I finished one of the
    "greatest papers in my life
    he was talking about general relativity and he was right,
    yes this work changed all the world people used to think
    about. Moreover, it was the greatest thing Einstein
    .introduce the world
    before starting to explain what is the gravity waves , let's
    talk first about what is these waves as it is not like light or
    electromagnetic waves and it is not even a particles
    ( some theories claims that these waves are gravitons ) ,
    simply we say that gravity waves is a ripples in space-

    time. Which means that the space and time ripples and
    this happens because of something like supernova or
    black holes collisions or even neutron stars collisions.
    Some gravitational waves also might be a result from the
    big bang itself but anyway we discover it by black holes
    .collisions
    Since Einstein interprets gravity as a curvature in spacetime and we look to gravity as a curvature in four
    dimensions and it can be represented visually as we put a
    .large ball on a piece of fabric taut

    And we found a problem in this shape of the space that


    general relativity form, it is quiet image of the universe
    but if we include gravity waves the space will be rippling
    as if you stand away from the sea when it is quiet calm
    you will see it clear but as you approach it you will see the
    .small ripples
    Moreover, this ripples caused by the rotations of objects
    around each other's or around itself in some cases. Earth
    and sum produce these ripples during their rotations but
    these ripples are infinitesimally small and out current
    technology cannot detect ripples with this size. So
    scientists uses neutron stars rotations or black holes to try
    detecting the ripples because in this case the waves
    produced will be much stronger and travels far away from
    .the source

    Here we have to stop here at an impotent idea, which is


    the shape of these waves. You will find that the image
    produced is like the sea waves and these waves called
    transverse waves. This wave move forward and backward
    by vibrating up and down, what happens that gravity
    waves is a transverse waves but not like sea waves. As it
    compressing the space-time in one direction and expand
    it from another direction then the direction reverses and
    vice versa .Take a small ball in your hand then press it and
    you will find that it compressed from a one direction and it
    expand from the another direction . Now when the
    gravitational waves cross the earth it compressed it far
    less than the radius of the proton and this was why
    scientists had to build a very precise machine like Ligo
    .detector and let us see how they did it

    :Ligo detector
    Ligo was built on the shape of letter 'L' in English
    alphabet and every line from the two line that forms this
    shape is about 4 km long ( and because this long length
    they are 100 hundred height to reduce the earth curvature
    effects) and inside the angle of 'L' there is a laser
    machine producing high energetic laser beam. First, the
    beam passes in Half-reflective 45 degree (from beam
    direction) mirrors and these mirrors will pass half of the
    light and reflect another half, so the light divided into two
    .parts, one for each line direction

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