I live only 30 minutes drive from the Hanford LIGO. They do monthly public tours. And if you have a group of 15 or more, you can schedule a private tour. I did that with my grandkids. Fantastic! Worth a visit to Richland, Washington on the Columbia River. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is another great center of science research here. And then there is the B Reactor, the first operational reactor on earth, created for the Manhattan Project, part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, and the Park Service gives tours. Very worthwhile. John Wheeler who taught Kip Thorne, did much of the theoretical work behind LIGO also worked on the B Reactor.
I'm so happy that there are some documentaries produced with the volume of the background music set to actually be in the background and not drowning the speech👌
Thank you so much for pointing out the issue with music being way too loud and annoying in TH-cam videos! I often make comments about music that's too loud and annoying.
Yes background music most times drowns out the dialog I can't hear whats being said. Seems like the producers and creators of these shows would realize this. This one is fine.
The music issue has, nearly, ruined several otherwise exceptional BBC presentations by Professor Jim Al-Khalili. His pedagogy is far too valuable to be so diminished by such a distraction. I seriously felt the desire to download the programs and remaster the audio, minimizing the music while enhancing Professor Khalili’s narrative. I suppose I could only use it for my personal use due to copyright issues. In the end, the BBC & Royal Institute could, with their production assets, easily remaster and upload. Middle of the night rant, but I stand by it.
At the time they won the Nobel Prize, Kip Thorne was 77 years old, Rai Weiss was 85 and Barry Barish 81. And I'm so happy that everything went well and they could see their work receive the honours it deserved. They all are alive and well today, BTW 😊... a great day to everybody.
It's 5:15 in the morning and I couldn't sleep. I started watching this video and I was enraptured. I've always been fascinated by science and have, since I retired, concentrated on learning about fields that interest me. Physics has been my big challenge (mainly the math) but this video opened up an entirely new way of thinking. I was impressed not only by the concepts but the clear presentation of the approaches taken to prove those concepts was fascinating. So, I am saving this video to watch again because I know that there is much I missed or didn't understand and I want to understand. Thank you.
Gravity MOTION is a myth and has been Debunked ! Having doubts ? Chech your BODY internal and external MOTION, even the air U breathe Debunks Gravity by enabling Ocean Waves into rolling MOTION.
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The captioning is the best I've seen anywhere: human-written, precise, and even synchronized with the speakers (no lag). There are millions of people who depend to one degree or another on closed captioning, yet easily 90% of all streamed media ignore this fact. I'm very grateful for the thoughtful and realistic approach of the producers here. Thank you!
I have a lot more questions though ....but yes we need to watch these amazing drs ,engineers, scientists , not only are they typical looking scientists ,which I mean no offence they are 'Clever Trevors', but they are expanding our little knowledge of what's really out there ....in Space 🌌
Thanks for the wonderful video, and a huge thanks for not ruining it with crappy background music. I don't know why some people are compelled to add annoying background music throughout their videos.
Sadly, my OP was premature. 16 minutes in and the background noise has driven me away. Constructive criticism: lose the background noise. The subject & the people being interviewed is great! The addition of distracting, monotonous & annoying music ruined the vid.
It’s amazing to see the universe through the lens of gravity! It’s also ironic the LIGO uses light to detect the waves of one the few non light mediums in order to shed new “light” on science.
The years of hard graft that went into conceiving, designing, funding and building these amazing precision instruments is a laudable story of scientific endeavour…. And the culmination of that endeavour in making the first actual records of the passing of a gravitiational wave is one of the greatest achievements in physics, eminently worthy of the Nobel Prize award. Bravo to everyone who worked on this wonderful project. Today, 9 years since the first groundbreaking event, the LIGO instruments have recorded dozens of gravitiational wave events and profoundly advanced our understanding of cosmology.
What an ADVENTURE! what a moment in science history! what a heroic achievement by many hundreds of Scientists, living and dead. this soundtrack was such a nice touch." BRAVO to the LIGO teams
The level of brilliance required to build LIGO is staggering. It requires so much engineering knowledge in mechanical, electrical, materials, optics, chemistry; even civil engineering.
I built one in my garage in a few weeks. Sadly my mom threw it out when I was at school because she thought it was junk. I actually measured gravitational waves 3 separate times. The data was on my computer that got a virus and crashed and I was unable to retrieve the data. Right now I am building a particle collider about half the size of CERN. I am building tunnels underneath my neighborhood and will be done with them soon and will start building the actual collider. It’s taking along time because I am working by myself and don’t have good tunneling equipment. Nevertheless I trudge on!
I saw the original version. Now this! A thrill, privilege, inspiration. The humanity, humility, generosity on display an explicit presentation of the best our species produces. Thank you one and all involved in bringing this extraordinary story to light. Best wishes. 🌞🤸🏽♂️🫶🏼🖖🏼🥂✌🏼
Holy smokes.. An hour and forty six minutes. I figured I’d take a stab at it and see how long it would take me to lose interest. I enjoyed it right to the end. Great documentary.
Great stuff. I'm only 8 minutes in and I'm already thinking the same thing I was thinking about this kind of detection before - you really need to have a detector station up past earth's local influences... We need something like the JWST up there for LIGO...
Which is why I don't believe they found anything but a anomaly. Just ask them what frequency they detected and the amplitude of the wave. I have watched numerous videos and that's one thing they don't talk about whatsoever. It's supposed to be less than 100 Hz with a Quadra polarized wave at 45° angles. Yet none of them even talk about it. They talk about everything else but what they so-called discovered.
Had a friend of mine take the people who do this on a haunted tour in New Orleans. He and they got aquainted,and he got invited to tour the facility nearby. He said it was one of the most incredible moments of his life to see the facility. He called me when they announced the grav wave indication so excitedly,lol. I understood the level of how huge this discovery was because it opened up so much in space and time science research. Bravo LIGO,Bravo to the teams who spent a lifetime of effort to find an event that was up to now just a fantastic theory.
This is fascinating! It's almost too believable that we humans can now detect massive cosmic events that are NOT by means of electromagnetic phenomena, which, since the dawn of human existence until 2015, were the only possible means of sensing electromagnetic waves rather than gravitational waves.. It boggles the mind and it lifts the spirit! What unimaginable wonders await us, if we survive our petty squabbles here on this little sphere we inhabit..
Its ironic that just now through the wonders of communication tech we can spread such fascinating info to such a massive percentage of the worlds population, but just as this is happening we seem to have destroyed a lot of what we have and are hell bent on exploiting and destroying whats left
An hour and forty six minutes. That is how I determine if it can hold my attention that long, the length of a movie. Just imagine the attention span of these scientists who have worked on it for decades! Talk about space time continuum! Taking decades of research and squeezing it into 1:46 just so our intelligence defiicited brains could relate to the signifigance of their findings. that's real time travel! Brilliant!😎👍
Having visited the LIGO facility at Hanford, Washington, I had a sense of what a monumental accomplishment this was. This documentary filled in a lot of knowledge gaps for me, but it was especially nice to "meet" and hear from all of people who worked so hard and made this project come to fruition.
What a wonderful creation that of LIGO, and in no small measure this documentary. Seldom do we get such an intimate glimpse of science in action. and to see it so richly populated by women is icing on the cake. I'm sure some time in the near future that a curious child will see this and a spark ignited that may culminate in another exciting discovery. Thank you, great work!
Of course, it comes to mind that a simulation would have its containment points, that is to say, the subjective nature of the perceptions within it, were they to venture far enough with the hypothesis, that the simulation might very well have a set of protocols to diffuse the question via a subroutine to redirect attentions, obfuscate or even manufacture distractions. The question that came early to mind , ( and I'm only 5 1 minutes in at this point ) given the sensitivity of the sensors and equipment, spoke to the possibility that the work being done in the collider could somehow play a part. Thus far, I gotta say, all these folks on camera are so chuffed, their enthusiasm is somehow infectious. :) Hive five film maker.
Asking "why only one" to me is the opposite that in a microscopic amount of time (decades) an event of this magnitude was discovered. So to me, these amazingly large events are common from a human time frame perspective. To now find the secondary effects of one, would be spectacular!
There was a fun for me moment, when one person was saying that someone else was sort of the idea of what not to do in data analysis, while leaning on the very precise, so precise it is made to move, machine. I say that as a once tech guy, who had to set up alignment of equipment for testing. I loved to keep my workroom locked to all outsiders always.
This discovery warrants the quality of the ducumentary.Again man and science has joined together to reveal another mystery of nature. It also links the past with the present, while recognizing those who unselfishly dedicated their lives to the work of documenting the first measurable gravity wave, in history.
I was able to access the preliminary test report the day after on their site. It was a "predicted" test. They had to detect the affect at subatomic level to get the measurement. They did not release that report until 6 months later.
We were there, at the LIGO Livingston Observatory. The detection was a COMPLETE SURPRISE. The full launch of Advanced LIGO was still two days away. And as you saw in the film, we were told the day before that LIGO did not expect a detection for another year, or more.
this seems alot more safe and necessary than what they are doing at cern thats for certain i live a couple hours away to and had no idea that this was going on. awesome! great film!
Seems to me the largest and longest collaboration of man's greatest minds in an endeavor that had no guarantee of bearing any fruit at all: with Large Hadron, for example, they would be running experiments that were certain to telll us something. Thus the humility of this group of geniuses to dedicate their careers to a search that might find nothing, Pure science is essential.
No they found the God particle . LOL all this theoretical stuff is good for progress I guess. When you make a discovery that nobody can rebuttal without building a billion-dollar machine who can dispute that? Logic dictates that new discoveries would bring some kind of invention Derived from that discovery but instead crickets.
If you walk from one place to another you are actually changing the position of the moon. It's not much, but it does affect. In fact, you actually change the entire universe to a very tiny degree.
I still can't wrap my head around that this was possible, let alone done. To have the determination to pull this off, knowing that it was so difficult...takes very special people. Humans can do incredible things and I feel a bit proud of our species. This documentary was an exceptional testament. I particularly liked the part where they devoted so much effort attempting to prove the initial signal of the binary black hole merger was fake/false. Cheers to all involved.
Yeah I sent my proposal to the NSF in 1980 at the time the NSF is also reviewing Lago Projects so what did they do with my proposal they sent my proposal group to be reviewed how stupid was that they were my competition
If people would take the initiative to understand what LIGO is all about, there would be many who would experience a true awakening, as the concept is remarkably simple. The words, the physics, et al, can be intimidating. Understanding that LIGO is simply an instrument that measures an interference in a beam of light is not difficult. What got the hair to stand on the back of my neck was how the strength and distance of the black hole collision is determined, using Einsteins formula to arrive at 200,000 measurements based on different sizes and masses of 2 bodies colliding, and doing reverse calculations. Simple concepts, in my opinion. When Weiss, Thorne, Barish, et al explain that decades of work culminate in their respective discoveries, one can see that the time element is both long...and a drop in the bucket. Phenomenal work by phenomenonal people. ...so, do we really want to cure cancer? (I digress, my apologies)
You would have to be high to think they can isolate every single minute noise from the universe and single out a theoretical G wave that they invented. It was discovered at the same time The project needed more funding. It's good for the economy and good for the progress of science but I'm not falling for theoretical propaganda at this point.
Im getting worried that too many current scientists still depend on 2D images/animations for explaining. We need to Level Up with this, especially if we want to learn about higher dimensions! 🤓 Animations need to be in 3D!! Think of space as a block of jello and not a flat sheet!!
I, as one, did the military thing when I was a young man, 63' - 66'. along about 2004-2012, I got two different types of cancers, lymphoma....first 2004, prostate....second 2008, if not for the VA any one of which could have killed me, I turned 80 years old in July 2023. Now I have lived long enough to see the LIGO experiment finally start working. Back in 1963 or so Scientists predicted that we Would have FUSION REACTORS by 2015. I'm still waiting to see that. They need to hurry up! I had another cancer in 2018 lung, if not for the VA I would be dead by now, and 'now' is the 7th of January 2024. Michael said that, bye for now my friends.
I wonder if Albert could have witnessed this ,would he have looked smug? Did he have any doubt at all? Or just a faint twinkle in his eyes saying “ I told you so ,I knew it!” What a guy What a team What relief they must have felt collectively.
Slopes are a more constructive analytic model to pursue than mere numbers. Also it would seem that the compression of mass feeding into a black hole raises its temperature to values that would generate relativistic effects, significantly increasing the mass of that which the black hole captures.
I believe the gravitational wave must be in the center of the structure as a whole, meaning no measurement can be make until the actual wave is in the center and both sides are geometrically stable, tho their overall length is contracted.
Amazing documentary - but the background music is really distracting and makes it difficult to focus on the dialogue and narration. Would love to be able to watch this again without the background music.
To realize that, because AND in spite of the unfathomable size of the universe, the size of space and time as compared to how very brief human being’s lifespan are, etc., it was I’m sure assumed and understood that those detectors could have been “listening” if you will for a long long time to register something of this magnitude, something as historic and amazing as what happened. On top of all of that, to happen when they’d not even have all the sensors or additional tools they had already developed to consolidate this project into a fruitful one, is, to me at least, a miracle, a sort of divine or spiritual reminder that reaffirm my believe in something that although intangible, unorthodox, invisible, and outside of, I feel, of any of the scientific disciplines, schools of thoughts, one side, or dogmas, beliefs, religious, etc., or even school of thoughts,philosophical, theories from, pretty much, every scientific discipline, and so on. So, for something like this to happen, is kinda like what witnessing a miracle would mean to a devoted Christian, except to me, they are one and the same cause I believe they come from the same place. These pioneers should be lauded and elevated and appreciated for the time and effort and passion they employ in advancing, improving, and working towards a general betterment of our species. Thank you lord, whoever, wherever, whenever, and ever, you may be, were or will be.
You, the person that did play the trumpet badly at the Nobel Ceremony, I want you to know how much you have destroyed for people all over the world! :D
The simple answer is that the wavelengths of harmonics associated with the reflection of the gravity andromeda has been sending out many magnetic waves in super fast waves to bending through a wall of space itself too understand the frequency that the pass by us is a matter of radio harmony or high blips and low blips
Yes and to call it anything more than high blips and low blips Is a disgrace to sciences a whole. They are going As far as pinpointing that it's two black holes merging straight lunacy.
This is nuts trying to do this precise measurement on the active moving Earth! Why is this measurement not being done between the space station and the Moon?
@43:00 Rainer Weiss huh? It is kind of insane he had the temerity to think of an actual experiment of such extraordinary sensitivity yet that involved geographic distances and logging trucks and earthquakes. Was this era a different time for science? Before the neoliberal (needless) austerity budgets fully kicked in? I cannot help but mention some political economy issues every scientist should know. Congress closed down the SSC, but their excuse was the cost (and the irresponsible SSC administration) which was an invalid reason. Consider, (a) the administers could have been fired and the project kept on track, and (b) there is no monetary cost issue for a sovereign currency issuer like the US government. They do not get their own currency (aka tax creidts, aka scorepoints) from the "tax payer". The tax payer cannot pay a dime in tax until the government, or Its chartered banks, first issue the currency (by fiat or credit resp.). Nor do they "borrow" their own currency from bonds holders --- again the bonds holders cannot purchase a single bond until the government first issues the currency. No one can legally get USD from anywhere else or it'd be counterfeit. (Why do Tsy/FED sell bonds then? It is to maintain a non-zero interest rate, which serves as _basic income_ but only for people who already have money in proportion to how much money they already have. No other reason. It is pro-inflationary, directly, raising forward prices by at least the interest rate floor, and directly raising costs for firms and households who do not have large operating cash balances (so most firms and households).) When you understand this you are thankful the administrators of LIGO were prudent and diligent, since Congress could have at any time been the idiots shutting down this monumental achievement, all because they (Congress) thought they needed to get their own scorepoints off tax payers, when in fact they are the scorekeepers who create the scorepoints (aka. currency) by using a computer to mark-up bank accounts --- no tax payer or bond holder needed. Tax liabilities drive _demand_ for the otherwise worthless currency, the tax receipts are not supply for the monopoly issuer, they are a redemption (that's why it is called revenue, from the French "revenir" ~ "to return back".) Your shopkeeper or private business sales are not really literally revenue, they are income, but it _is_ a trade, in "return" for giving away some stuff, the buyer gives you some tax credits. This is a totally different relation to that of us and the government. The government does not need to "get" its own currency and does not "get" the currency from anywhere except by accounting entries, but it _needs us to need the currency,_ hence the imposed tax liabilities. For a government investor (not a household or firm), the only thing _materially_ preventing the SSC or LIGIO is available real resource constraints. Are there enough materials and engineers? If there are, then in time it can be built. The currency to pay for these resources is not the issue if you are the monopoly creator of the currency. If you pay the going market price for the resources there is zero inflationary pressure. If the government spends more than tax return, that becomes net private sector savings, which helps the economy. The *government net spending* (misleadingly called the "debt" --- since what exactly is a debt to you in your own currency units if you issue the currency by fiat?) *is the private sector surplus.* You want that to grow if you have a growing population. If the economy booms then so will tax receipts rise, automatically, this cools of the inflation (one of the automatic stabilisers), especially if there is tax bracket creep or progressive tax rates. More here for science nerds who need to know macroeconomics: smithwillsuffice.github.io/ohanga-pai/questions/001_basic_ohangapai/
Is it just me but are the long arms in the first words a nod to Laurie Andersons long arms from "Oh Superman?". Magnificent documentary, required viewing :-)
Thanks! We love Laurie Anderson and wish we could have been cool enough to make that nod! We actually did consider using some of her music in the score but chose to stick with David Bowie and Phil Glass.
I live about 2 miles from the one in Livingston, LA, as the crow flies. We can hear it humming when its operating. People think I am crazy but I am convinced it affects the weather when operating. Ive watched rain storm coming it completely vanish in the area of the detector. Maybe a coincidence, but maybe not. Havent seen any UAP's but it seems like this would be a hot spot. Tin foil hat ENGAGED!
They had 250,000 different ways of detecting The phenomenon in the Computer analysis program. They pick the one that fit the bill. All statistical manipulation of the highest magnitude.
The National Science Foundation! Yes, they spent 50+ years searching for these. The NSF funded the two observatories knowing that LIGO could not learn what it needed to learn without building the observatories and running them first. Which LIGO did, then spent 5 years upgrading them -- and then made the first detection a couple days even before the formal new launch.
They mentioned that the first wave was only detectable by Ligo. The wave is "gone". IF there was another detector somewhere that could be synchronized with the detection of the wave then the observation could be confirmed.
No you're asking too many questions just take their word for it. You cannot find any scientists that even attempt to have a rebuttal against this argument.
There were three observatories that detected the signal, within the correct milliseconds that separated them, given the speed of light. The two LIGO detectors, in Louisiana and Washington State, and the Virgo detector outside of Pisa, Italy.
Actually the superior minds sent this signal to study the brain waves of these scientists as they began to grok the magic. The problem was to eliminate the background noises in their heads.
For me, this discovery & the voyage of Apollo 8 are the two of mankind’s greatest..: when we first left/ gravity of our home world.., and have now detected a phenomenon that is outside our natural senses… to a accuracy that is beyond comprehension..👍
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I live only 30 minutes drive from the Hanford LIGO. They do monthly public tours. And if you have a group of 15 or more, you can schedule a private tour. I did that with my grandkids. Fantastic! Worth a visit to Richland, Washington on the Columbia River. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is another great center of science research here. And then there is the B Reactor, the first operational reactor on earth, created for the Manhattan Project, part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, and the Park Service gives tours. Very worthwhile. John Wheeler who taught Kip Thorne, did much of the theoretical work behind LIGO also worked on the B Reactor.
I'm so happy that there are some documentaries produced with the volume of the background music set to actually be in the background and not drowning the speech👌
Zero music would be fine
Yes, it's pleasant how minimal it is. The less the better really. It's hard to not put it in when editing.. people are scared of silence in media.. :)
Thank you so much for pointing out the issue with music being way too loud and annoying in TH-cam videos! I often make comments about music that's too loud and annoying.
Yes background music most times drowns out the dialog I can't hear whats being said. Seems like the producers and creators of these shows would realize this. This one is fine.
The music issue has, nearly, ruined several otherwise exceptional BBC presentations by Professor Jim Al-Khalili. His pedagogy is far too valuable to be so diminished by such a distraction.
I seriously felt the desire to download the programs and remaster the audio, minimizing the music while enhancing Professor Khalili’s narrative. I suppose I could only use it for my personal use due to copyright issues. In the end, the BBC & Royal Institute could, with their production assets, easily remaster and upload.
Middle of the night rant, but I stand by it.
Bravo! ....what a beautiful film. The signing of the book with all the signatures of earlier Nobel winners took my breath away. Great documentary.
At the time they won the Nobel Prize, Kip Thorne was 77 years old, Rai Weiss was 85 and Barry Barish 81. And I'm so happy that everything went well and they could see their work receive the honours it deserved. They all are alive and well today, BTW 😊... a great day to everybody.
It's 5:15 in the morning and I couldn't sleep. I started watching this video and I was enraptured. I've always been fascinated by science and have, since I retired, concentrated on learning about fields that interest me. Physics has been my big challenge (mainly the math) but this video opened up an entirely new way of thinking. I was impressed not only by the concepts but the clear presentation of the approaches taken to prove those concepts was fascinating. So, I am saving this video to watch again because I know that there is much I missed or didn't understand and I want to understand. Thank you.
Gravity MOTION is a myth and has been Debunked !
Having doubts ?
Chech your BODY internal and external MOTION, even the air U breathe Debunks Gravity by enabling Ocean Waves into rolling MOTION.
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your t compelled me to share this book with you, i've found a nice twelve minute summary also!
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Wow I just saw your profile picture and assuming that is your cat in the picture, my cat looks identical to yours! At least the face does
The captioning is the best I've seen anywhere: human-written, precise, and even synchronized with the speakers (no lag). There are millions of people who depend to one degree or another on closed captioning, yet easily 90% of all streamed media ignore this fact. I'm very grateful for the thoughtful and realistic approach of the producers here. Thank you!
Hells bells I needed this documentary. In a troubled world, this reminded me of the purity and nobility of scientific enquiry.
That died with global warming and was buried by covid
"Hell's bells" 🙂
Haven't heard that phrase since my dad passed away a couple of decades ago.
I have a lot more questions though ....but yes we need to watch these amazing drs ,engineers, scientists , not only are they typical looking scientists ,which I mean no offence they are 'Clever Trevors', but they are expanding our little knowledge of what's really out there ....in Space 🌌
If only…. The whole history of science is heterodoxy vs orthodoxy.
Why not study gravitational waves they’re a part of the universe and happening every day
I am pleased that humanity liked the results. It gives inspiration for further research and development. And there are bigger surprises.
Thanks for an excellent documentary of the awesome LIGO instrument.
Thanks for the wonderful video, and a huge thanks for not ruining it with crappy background music.
I don't know why some people are compelled to add annoying background music throughout their videos.
Sadly, my OP was premature. 16 minutes in and the background noise has driven me away.
Constructive criticism:
lose the background noise.
The subject & the people being interviewed is great! The addition of distracting, monotonous & annoying music ruined the vid.
Because they know that their shows won't stand on their own, without additional distractions.
It’s amazing to see the universe through the lens of gravity! It’s also ironic the LIGO uses light to detect the waves of one the few non light mediums in order to shed new “light” on science.
@timothyconnally2167
Seeing through the lens of Gravity is no different from closing the eye's shut !
@@rayagoldendropofsun397 Ha true indeed!
the utter beauty and also the sheer madness of human beings and what we are able to do
The years of hard graft that went into conceiving, designing, funding and building these amazing precision instruments is a laudable story of scientific endeavour…. And the culmination of that endeavour in making the first actual records of the passing of a gravitiational wave is one of the greatest achievements in physics, eminently worthy of the Nobel Prize award. Bravo to everyone who worked on this wonderful project. Today, 9 years since the first groundbreaking event, the LIGO instruments have recorded dozens of gravitiational wave events and profoundly advanced our understanding of cosmology.
Beautiful !!!! Thank you for all of your hard and many, many years of work and determination. 😀
What an ADVENTURE! what a moment in science history! what a heroic achievement by many hundreds of Scientists, living and dead.
this soundtrack was such a nice touch."
BRAVO to the LIGO teams
I can't believe that this awesome movie is free! I love all you smart nerds! I'm a hobbyist physicist.
The level of brilliance required to build LIGO is staggering. It requires so much engineering knowledge in mechanical, electrical, materials, optics, chemistry; even civil engineering.
I built one in my garage in a few weeks. Sadly my mom threw it out when I was at school because she thought it was junk. I actually measured gravitational waves 3 separate times. The data was on my computer that got a virus and crashed and I was unable to retrieve the data. Right now I am building a particle collider about half the size of CERN. I am building tunnels underneath my neighborhood and will be done with them soon and will start building the actual collider. It’s taking along time because I am working by myself and don’t have good tunneling equipment. Nevertheless I trudge on!
@Kwisatz_HaderachXIII 🤣🔔🔚
Thanks for this release - such an excellent tale of scientific endeavour, now with more of my favourite characters - in HD! ❤
This is. It! Best wishes for the scientist. Video montage is brilliant!
I saw the original version. Now this! A thrill, privilege, inspiration. The humanity, humility, generosity on display an explicit presentation of the best our species produces. Thank you one and all involved in bringing this extraordinary story to light. Best wishes. 🌞🤸🏽♂️🫶🏼🖖🏼🥂✌🏼
Holy smokes.. An hour and forty six minutes. I figured I’d take a stab at it and see how long it would take me to lose interest. I enjoyed it right to the end. Great documentary.
Yeah 30 min in no science just hyped speculation .
Some of these projects really deserve medals, especially satellite observation modules. We're learning so much because of them!
An outstanding documentary! ❤
Great stuff. I'm only 8 minutes in and I'm already thinking the same thing I was thinking about this kind of detection before - you really need to have a detector station up past earth's local influences... We need something like the JWST up there for LIGO...
something like lisa.nasa.gov/ ?
LISA (Laser Interferometric Space Astronomy)
@@endcgm9277 oh, gosh.. haha, i hadn't heard about LISA, thank you, that's awesome. 2034.. hope i'm still around to see it!! :)
The same thought occurred to me at some point during the movie
Which is why I don't believe they found anything but a anomaly. Just ask them what frequency they detected and the amplitude of the wave. I have watched numerous videos and that's one thing they don't talk about whatsoever. It's supposed to be less than 100 Hz with a Quadra polarized wave at 45° angles. Yet none of them even talk about it. They talk about everything else but what they so-called discovered.
Had a friend of mine take the people who do this on a haunted tour in New Orleans.
He and they got aquainted,and he got invited to tour the facility nearby.
He said it was one of the most incredible moments of his life to see the facility.
He called me when they announced the grav wave indication so excitedly,lol.
I understood the level of how huge this discovery was because it opened up so much in space and time science research.
Bravo LIGO,Bravo to the teams who spent a lifetime of effort to find an event that was up to now just a fantastic theory.
Great documentary, hope it ends up at something like PBS NOVA so more people see it!
Such a good documentary, thanks! Everything was so well explained, so that even a layman like me could grasp the concepts.
That means a lot to us, many thanks!
Exceptional documentary.
This documentary is incredible, it really helps you understand the magnitude of the work and of the discovery.
This is fascinating! It's almost too believable that we humans can now detect massive cosmic events that are NOT by means of electromagnetic phenomena, which, since the dawn of human existence until 2015, were the only possible means of sensing electromagnetic waves rather than gravitational waves.. It boggles the mind and it lifts the spirit! What unimaginable wonders await us, if we survive our petty squabbles here on this little sphere we inhabit..
Its ironic that just now through the wonders of communication tech we can spread such fascinating info to such a massive percentage of the worlds population, but just as this is happening we seem to have destroyed a lot of what we have and are hell bent on exploiting and destroying whats left
Thank you so much. This is a juicy tomahawk steak of a documentary. Rare and well done at the same time
One of the great achievements in experimental physics. I am sharing this with all my physics students.
It heartens me to see these big scientific search projects being funded.
Amazing.
Hear hear!
Thank you for posting this and sharing.
KUDOS TO ALL INVOLVED ❤
We are all living in a golden age of science, technology, and wonder.
"To infinity! And beyond!" -----Buzz Lightyear
Bravo to all those involved!
An hour and forty six minutes. That is how I determine if it can hold my attention that long, the length of a movie. Just imagine the attention span of these scientists who have worked on it for decades! Talk about space time continuum! Taking decades of research and squeezing it into 1:46 just so our intelligence defiicited brains could relate to the signifigance of their findings. that's real time travel! Brilliant!😎👍
Great documentary about a monumental advance
Having visited the LIGO facility at Hanford, Washington, I had a sense of what a monumental accomplishment this was. This documentary filled in a lot of knowledge gaps for me, but it was especially nice to "meet" and hear from all of people who worked so hard and made this project come to fruition.
This is a wonderful documentary, thank you!!
I love seeing Peter Saulson in here! Hello friend!
I could fall in love with Gabby Gonzalez! I love her bubbly, infectious enthusiasm! They couldn't have elected a better spokesperson!
Viva Argentina! (And I’m so sorry you beautiful people have such awful governments.)
Such a great scientific (and engineering) adventure 🎉🎉🎉
Wonderful video!
What a wonderful creation that of LIGO, and in no small measure this documentary. Seldom do we get such an intimate glimpse of science in action. and to see it so richly populated by women is icing on the cake. I'm sure some time in the near future that a curious child will see this and a spark ignited that may culminate in another exciting discovery. Thank you, great work!
Of course, it comes to mind that a simulation would have its containment points, that is to say, the subjective nature of the perceptions within it, were they to venture far enough with the hypothesis, that the simulation might very well have a set of protocols to diffuse the question via a subroutine to redirect attentions, obfuscate or even manufacture distractions.
The question that came early to mind , ( and I'm only 5 1 minutes in at this point ) given the sensitivity of the sensors and equipment, spoke to the possibility that the work being done in the collider could somehow play a part.
Thus far, I gotta say, all these folks on camera are so chuffed, their enthusiasm is somehow infectious. :)
Hive five film maker.
That was an amazing documentary! Beautifully done.
Asking "why only one" to me is the opposite that in a microscopic amount of time (decades) an event of this magnitude was discovered. So to me, these amazingly large events are common from a human time frame perspective. To now find the secondary effects of one, would be spectacular!
I wish that more quality sci-fi movies were made 🎬
Like how close would a gravitational wave need to be near the Earth to be a "problem". Or maybe multiple waves are heading to the Earth. Oh no.
These waved went THROUGH the earth. No one felt it. Very weak.
I love the old analog oscilloscopes behind Michael Zucker at 38:15 😍
So did we!
Plug in pre-amps even.
There was a fun for me moment, when one person was saying that someone else was sort of the idea of what not to do in data analysis, while leaning on the very precise, so precise it is made to move, machine. I say that as a once tech guy, who had to set up alignment of equipment for testing. I loved to keep my workroom locked to all outsiders always.
He was leaning, of course, on the 40-year-old "detector" of Joseph Weber, now just on display at the LIGO Hanford Observatory. No data being taken!
This is amazing, good way to spread the beauty of science.
This discovery warrants the quality of the ducumentary.Again man and science has joined together to reveal another mystery of nature. It also links the past with the present, while recognizing those who unselfishly dedicated their lives to the work of documenting the first measurable gravity wave, in history.
A truly marvelous and engrossing film...🎉
These scientists and experiments are so inspiring.
I was able to access the preliminary test report the day after on their site. It was a "predicted" test. They had to detect the affect at subatomic level to get the measurement. They did not release that report until 6 months later.
We were there, at the LIGO Livingston Observatory. The detection was a COMPLETE SURPRISE. The full launch of Advanced LIGO was still two days away. And as you saw in the film, we were told the day before that LIGO did not expect a detection for another year, or more.
this seems alot more safe and necessary than what they are doing at cern thats for certain i live a couple hours away to and had no idea that this was going on. awesome! great film!
Best sci doc I've seen. I teach high school physics/astronomy. My students loved this.
Seems to me the largest and longest collaboration of man's greatest minds in an endeavor that had no guarantee of bearing any fruit at all: with Large Hadron, for example, they would be running experiments that were certain to telll us something. Thus the humility of this group of geniuses to dedicate their careers to a search that might find nothing, Pure science is essential.
No they found the God particle . LOL all this theoretical stuff is good for progress I guess. When you make a discovery that nobody can rebuttal without building a billion-dollar machine who can dispute that? Logic dictates that new discoveries would bring some kind of invention Derived from that discovery but instead crickets.
To think there are humans in the world this intelligent is almost hard to fathom.
This was an awesome interesting documentary !! 😮👍
Thank you:) Amazing discovery.
Love it!!
Thank you Kip! Interstellar was outstanding!
If you walk from one place to another you are actually changing the position of the moon. It's not much, but it does affect.
In fact, you actually change the entire universe to a very tiny degree.
The waves are so subtle at our distance I wonder if we can observe matter near the black holes and see changes.
I still can't wrap my head around that this was possible, let alone done. To have the determination to pull this off, knowing that it was so difficult...takes very special people. Humans can do incredible things and I feel a bit proud of our species. This documentary was an exceptional testament. I particularly liked the part where they devoted so much effort attempting to prove the initial signal of the binary black hole merger was fake/false. Cheers to all involved.
Yeah I sent my proposal to the NSF in 1980 at the time the NSF is also reviewing Lago Projects so what did they do with my proposal they sent my proposal group to be reviewed how stupid was that they were my competition
If people would take the initiative to understand what LIGO is all about, there would be many who would experience a true awakening, as the concept is remarkably simple. The words, the physics, et al, can be intimidating. Understanding that LIGO is simply an instrument that measures an interference in a beam of light is not difficult.
What got the hair to stand on the back of my neck was how the strength and distance of the black hole collision is determined, using Einsteins formula to arrive at 200,000 measurements based on different sizes and masses of 2 bodies colliding, and doing reverse calculations. Simple concepts, in my opinion. When Weiss, Thorne, Barish, et al explain that decades of work culminate in their respective discoveries, one can see that the time element is both long...and a drop in the bucket. Phenomenal work by phenomenonal people.
...so, do we really want to cure cancer? (I digress, my apologies)
Mode swing is a better way to detect GW up to 100 mhz in a fiber optic laser detection system
Two laser arms is to old school and bulky
Thanks. I have been participating in BOINC Einstein@Home and MilkyWay@Home at this time. Very cool to see this astronomy and discovery in action.
This went well with the Tropical Thunder bubble hash i got from the store ☺️
You would have to be high to think they can isolate every single minute noise from the universe and single out a theoretical G wave that they invented. It was discovered at the same time The project needed more funding. It's good for the economy and good for the progress of science but I'm not falling for theoretical propaganda at this point.
Im getting worried that too many current scientists still depend on 2D images/animations for explaining. We need to Level Up with this, especially if we want to learn about higher dimensions! 🤓 Animations need to be in 3D!! Think of space as a block of jello and not a flat sheet!!
Talk about how much light is flying between the two mirrors. That alone is astounding. It is a real flux capacitor!
I, as one, did the military thing when I was a young man, 63' - 66'. along about 2004-2012, I got two different types of cancers, lymphoma....first 2004, prostate....second 2008, if not for the VA any one of which could have killed me,
I turned 80 years old in July
2023. Now I have lived long enough to see the LIGO experiment finally start working. Back in 1963 or so
Scientists predicted that we
Would have FUSION REACTORS by 2015. I'm still waiting to see that.
They need to hurry up! I had another cancer in 2018 lung, if not for the VA I would be dead by now, and 'now' is the 7th of January
2024. Michael said that, bye for now my friends.
I wonder if Albert could have witnessed this ,would he have looked smug? Did he have any doubt at all? Or just a faint twinkle in his eyes saying “ I told you so ,I knew it!”
What a guy
What a team
What relief they must have felt collectively.
AE had concluded gravitational waves would be undetectable.
Slopes are a more constructive analytic model to pursue than mere numbers. Also it would seem that the compression of mass feeding into a black hole raises its temperature to values that would generate relativistic effects, significantly increasing the mass of that which the black hole captures.
I believe the gravitational wave must be in the center of the structure as a whole, meaning no measurement can be make until the actual wave is in the center and both sides are geometrically stable, tho their overall length is contracted.
I.T. I.S. the Law of no Lows switching the 010 uni-verse
Amazing documentary - but the background music is really distracting and makes it difficult to focus on the dialogue and narration. Would love to be able to watch this again without the background music.
To realize that, because AND in spite of the unfathomable size of the universe, the size of space and time as compared to how very brief human being’s lifespan are, etc., it was I’m sure assumed and understood that those detectors could have been “listening” if you will for a long long time to register something of this magnitude, something as historic and amazing as what happened. On top of all of that, to happen when they’d not even have all the sensors or additional tools they had already developed to consolidate this project into a fruitful one, is, to me at least, a miracle, a sort of divine or spiritual reminder that reaffirm my believe in something that although intangible, unorthodox, invisible, and outside of, I feel, of any of the scientific disciplines, schools of thoughts, one side, or dogmas, beliefs, religious, etc., or even school of thoughts,philosophical, theories from, pretty much, every scientific discipline, and so on. So, for something like this to happen, is kinda like what witnessing a miracle would mean to a devoted Christian, except to me, they are one and the same cause I believe they come from the same place. These pioneers should be lauded and elevated and appreciated for the time and effort and passion they employ in advancing, improving, and working towards a general betterment of our species. Thank you lord, whoever, wherever, whenever, and ever, you may be, were or will be.
I think black holes are like cancellation points for vibrations to enter into a non vibration level
LIGO my ballz
You, the person that did play the trumpet badly at the Nobel Ceremony, I want you to know how much you have destroyed for people all over the world!
:D
The simple answer is that the wavelengths of harmonics associated with the reflection of the gravity andromeda has been sending out many magnetic waves in super fast waves to bending through a wall of space itself too understand the frequency that the pass by us is a matter of radio harmony or high blips and low blips
Yes and to call it anything more than high blips and low blips Is a disgrace to sciences a whole. They are going As far as pinpointing that it's two black holes merging straight lunacy.
The Ground Control to Major Tom riff... Can I get an amen?
This is nuts trying to do this precise measurement on the active moving Earth! Why is this measurement not being done between the space station and the Moon?
Superb docu and music! Would love to get the name of the soundtrack and artist if possible!
The music was arranged by the director, Les Guthman. It was largely written and performed by David Bowie and Philip Glass.
@@advancedligodocumentarypro442 Pfff quite the legends there! No wonder it's so good! Thx for sharing!
This is the Synder cut.
Do gravitational waves amplify/cancel eachother, or do they propagate without interaction?
i think if they are like any other wave, they could cohere/interfere with each other
The refract, diffract, absorb and reflect depending on the density of the receiver. Mass changes their direction of propagation.
@43:00 Rainer Weiss huh? It is kind of insane he had the temerity to think of an actual experiment of such extraordinary sensitivity yet that involved geographic distances and logging trucks and earthquakes. Was this era a different time for science? Before the neoliberal (needless) austerity budgets fully kicked in?
I cannot help but mention some political economy issues every scientist should know. Congress closed down the SSC, but their excuse was the cost (and the irresponsible SSC administration) which was an invalid reason. Consider, (a) the administers could have been fired and the project kept on track, and (b) there is no monetary cost issue for a sovereign currency issuer like the US government.
They do not get their own currency (aka tax creidts, aka scorepoints) from the "tax payer". The tax payer cannot pay a dime in tax until the government, or Its chartered banks, first issue the currency (by fiat or credit resp.). Nor do they "borrow" their own currency from bonds holders --- again the bonds holders cannot purchase a single bond until the government first issues the currency. No one can legally get USD from anywhere else or it'd be counterfeit. (Why do Tsy/FED sell bonds then? It is to maintain a non-zero interest rate, which serves as _basic income_ but only for people who already have money in proportion to how much money they already have. No other reason. It is pro-inflationary, directly, raising forward prices by at least the interest rate floor, and directly raising costs for firms and households who do not have large operating cash balances (so most firms and households).)
When you understand this you are thankful the administrators of LIGO were prudent and diligent, since Congress could have at any time been the idiots shutting down this monumental achievement, all because they (Congress) thought they needed to get their own scorepoints off tax payers, when in fact they are the scorekeepers who create the scorepoints (aka. currency) by using a computer to mark-up bank accounts --- no tax payer or bond holder needed. Tax liabilities drive _demand_ for the otherwise worthless currency, the tax receipts are not supply for the monopoly issuer, they are a redemption (that's why it is called revenue, from the French "revenir" ~ "to return back".) Your shopkeeper or private business sales are not really literally revenue, they are income, but it _is_ a trade, in "return" for giving away some stuff, the buyer gives you some tax credits. This is a totally different relation to that of us and the government. The government does not need to "get" its own currency and does not "get" the currency from anywhere except by accounting entries, but it _needs us to need the currency,_ hence the imposed tax liabilities.
For a government investor (not a household or firm), the only thing _materially_ preventing the SSC or LIGIO is available real resource constraints. Are there enough materials and engineers? If there are, then in time it can be built. The currency to pay for these resources is not the issue if you are the monopoly creator of the currency. If you pay the going market price for the resources there is zero inflationary pressure. If the government spends more than tax return, that becomes net private sector savings, which helps the economy. The *government net spending* (misleadingly called the "debt" --- since what exactly is a debt to you in your own currency units if you issue the currency by fiat?) *is the private sector surplus.* You want that to grow if you have a growing population. If the economy booms then so will tax receipts rise, automatically, this cools of the inflation (one of the automatic stabilisers), especially if there is tax bracket creep or progressive tax rates. More here for science nerds who need to know macroeconomics: smithwillsuffice.github.io/ohanga-pai/questions/001_basic_ohangapai/
Is it just me but are the long arms in the first words a nod to Laurie Andersons long arms from "Oh Superman?". Magnificent documentary, required viewing :-)
Thanks! We love Laurie Anderson and wish we could have been cool enough to make that nod! We actually did consider using some of her music in the score but chose to stick with David Bowie and Phil Glass.
I live about 2 miles from the one in Livingston, LA, as the crow flies. We can hear it humming when its operating. People think I am crazy but I am convinced it affects the weather when operating. Ive watched rain storm coming it completely vanish in the area of the detector. Maybe a coincidence, but maybe not. Havent seen any UAP's but it seems like this would be a hot spot. Tin foil hat ENGAGED!
Why was the LIGO detector not built somewhere in the desert, far away from traffic and other human actions?
No tax breaks in the desert no funding this is all government-funded and good for the economy basically. Just like war
One theory was Sen. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana, a senior member of the Appropriations Committee....
5σ the holy gral for statistics.
They had 250,000 different ways of detecting The phenomenon in the Computer analysis program. They pick the one that fit the bill. All statistical manipulation of the highest magnitude.
No, one of the 200,000 templates matched with signal that was detected - independent of the templates.
It was only seen by the camera - and you! (It was a video glitch we repaired....)
The music is distracting and unnecessary
I'm happy to hear they have discovered something, LIGO is not too far from my home, who is funding this place? The site was built like 40 years ago.
The National Science Foundation! Yes, they spent 50+ years searching for these. The NSF funded the two observatories knowing that LIGO could not learn what it needed to learn without building the observatories and running them first. Which LIGO did, then spent 5 years upgrading them -- and then made the first detection a couple days even before the formal new launch.
They mentioned that the first wave was only detectable by Ligo. The wave is "gone". IF there was another detector somewhere that could be synchronized with the detection of the wave then the observation could be confirmed.
No you're asking too many questions just take their word for it. You cannot find any scientists that even attempt to have a rebuttal against this argument.
There were three observatories that detected the signal, within the correct milliseconds that separated them, given the speed of light. The two LIGO detectors, in Louisiana and Washington State, and the Virgo detector outside of Pisa, Italy.
@@funnycatvideos5490the reply under yours confirms you have no understanding. 😂
Actually the superior minds sent this signal to study the brain waves of these scientists as they began to grok the magic. The problem was to eliminate the background noises in their heads.
This had to have been the ABSOLUTE FIRST CONSTRUCTION PROJECT TO CONSIDER THE EARTH's 'CURVATURE'
For me, this discovery & the voyage of Apollo 8 are the two of mankind’s greatest..: when we first left/ gravity of our home world.., and have now detected a phenomenon that is outside our natural senses… to a accuracy that is beyond comprehension..👍