Name: Feeling Spacetime SHAKE when Black Holes Collide! Nobelist Rai Weiss on Gravitational Waves w/ LIGO | Videos | Gan Jing World
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Description: #RainerWeiss #BlackHoles #NobelPrize MIT Physics Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss won a 1/2 share of The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 tor his “contributions to th... | Videos | Gan Jing World

Dr Brian Keating

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#RainerWeiss #BlackHoles #NobelPrize MIT Physics Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss won a 1/2 share of The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 tor his “contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”. Talking to Rai was a highlight of my career. He is as genuine as they come and pulls no punches!

Download the first two chapters of my book Losing the Nobel Prize here http://a.co/9OL6qLz — this is what I open the video with!

He was born in Berlin, where his father was a doctor and psychoanalyst and his mother an actress. His father was of Jewish descent, and the family fled Nazism to the United States. After schooling in New York, Weiss studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his doctor’s degree in 1962. After a couple of years at Tufts University and Princeton University, he returned to MIT, which he has been associated with ever since. Rainer Weiss is married and has a daughter and a son.

Professor Weiss's Nobel winning work come out of one consequence of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, the existence of gravitational waves. These are like ripples in a four-dimensional spacetime that occur when massive objects accelerate. To call the effects very small is an understatement of cosmic proportions!

Beginning in the 1970s, the LIGO detector was developed. LIGO’s laser technology measures minute changes in the curvature of spacetime caused by gravitational waves. In September 2015, gravitational waves were directly detected by LIGO for the first time in human history. 

Watch Rai’s TEDx talk: https://youtu.be/x7rjlm4SH5U

See my conversation with Rai’s fellow laureate  
Barry Barish; Black Holes, Nobel Prizes, & the Imposter Syndrome https://youtu.be/2JgatLA6pJM 

00:00:00 Introduction
00:08:00 Concerns about Getting The Nobel Prize
00:12:55 Imposter Syndrome? You too!?
00:18:46 Theorists vs. Experimentalists
00:23:22 Thoughts on STEM Pedagogy
00:27:21 Essential Skills: using your hands and the benefits of just messing around
00:33:39 Dropping Out of MIT
00:34:00 Falling in love...with Atomic Clocks
00:35:52 Philosophy of Experimental Science
00:39:44 Thinkng about Einstein-What's his most cited paper and why?
00:40:54 When should you quit an experiment?
00:42:26 LIGO and the art & science of detecting weak signals.
00:48:02 Did Rai ever have doubts about detecting gravitational waves? 
00:55:00 Albert Einstein’s best work on general relativity.
01:00:00 The nature of scientific collaborations (and rivalries).
01:21:00 The circular logic of singularity theory.
01:22:38 What if there was no big bang?
01:26:56 From Max Tegmark: Why did your MIT Dean draw a huge zero?
01:28:10 Staying at MIT
01:30:34 What's it like to work on "fringe" projects?
01:33:39 Can experiments get too big?
01:40:00 What would you do with your own billion year time capsule?
01:41:00 What advice would you give your younger self?

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