17–21 Feb 2020
El Colegio Nacional, México City
America/Mexico_City timezone

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JORGE CERVANTES-COTA: A Brief History of Gravitational Waves

18 Feb 2020, 11:30
1h
El Colegio Nacional, México City

El Colegio Nacional, México City

SYMPOSIUM ON BLACK HOLES AND GRAVITATIONAL WAVES PLENARY TALKS

Description

This review describes the discovery of gravitational waves. We recount the journey of predicting and finding those waves, since its beginning in the early twentieth century, their prediction by Einstein in 1916, theoretical and experimental blunders, efforts towards their detection, and finally the subsequent successful discovery.

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