Mastodon Feed
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope"):
clacke@libranet.de ("Claes Wallin 🇸🇪ðŸ‡ðŸ‡°") wrote:
Professor Adhikari when they turn on his machine and get the perfect signal that same night: "[Whatever, I don't have time for this nonsense. You young whippersnappers need to understand that the world doesn't work like that.]"
A few weeks later after eliminating every other possibility he is finally warming up to the fact the signal is real and a Nobel Prize-worthy discovery was indeed made by amazing coincidence basically the moment they turned the machine on after 20 years of preparation.
invidious.kavin.rocks/watch?v=…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViMnGg…Also Prof A is just amazing to listen to and Veritasium lets him speak without interruption. Great interview.
How Scientists Reacted to Gravitational Wave Detection