Physics Nobel Prize 2k17 by Melissa Greco https://padlet.com/melyssa_greco/c1b5w7hjw6fu en-us 2017-12-20 09:29:49 UTC 2025-04-28 15:03:59 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Planets.png The Nobel Prize is shared between Barish, Weiss and Thorne melyssa_greco https://padlet.com/melyssa_greco/c1b5w7hjw6fu/wish/217442706 They won this prize because for fourty years they gave their contribute to  the study of gravitational waves that Einstein have discovered but he couldn't never demonstrate their existance.]]> 2017-12-20 09:43:00 UTC https://padlet.com/melyssa_greco/c1b5w7hjw6fu/wish/217442706 LIGO melyssa_greco https://padlet.com/melyssa_greco/c1b5w7hjw6fu/wish/217443938 LIGO is the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, is a collaborative project with over one thousand researchers from more than twenty countries.]]> 2017-12-20 09:49:42 UTC https://padlet.com/melyssa_greco/c1b5w7hjw6fu/wish/217443938 VIRGO melyssa_greco https://padlet.com/melyssa_greco/c1b5w7hjw6fu/wish/217444846 There are some interferometers in the world, one of them is situated in Italy, near Pisa (cascina) and it's called Virgo.]]> 2017-12-20 09:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/melyssa_greco/c1b5w7hjw6fu/wish/217444846 Gravitational Waves melyssa_greco https://padlet.com/melyssa_greco/c1b5w7hjw6fu/wish/217445381 In few words, gravitational waves are 'ripples' in the fabric of space-time caused by some of the most violent and energetic processes in the Universe.]]> 2017-12-20 09:56:57 UTC https://padlet.com/melyssa_greco/c1b5w7hjw6fu/wish/217445381 melyssa_greco https://padlet.com/melyssa_greco/c1b5w7hjw6fu/wish/217526041 2017-12-20 16:04:49 UTC https://padlet.com/melyssa_greco/c1b5w7hjw6fu/wish/217526041 melyssa_greco https://padlet.com/melyssa_greco/c1b5w7hjw6fu/wish/217526769 2017-12-20 16:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/melyssa_greco/c1b5w7hjw6fu/wish/217526769 melyssa_greco https://padlet.com/melyssa_greco/c1b5w7hjw6fu/wish/217527658 2017-12-20 16:10:10 UTC https://padlet.com/melyssa_greco/c1b5w7hjw6fu/wish/217527658 But... What are these gravitational Waves? melyssa_greco https://padlet.com/melyssa_greco/c1b5w7hjw6fu/wish/217529892 2017-12-20 16:15:55 UTC https://padlet.com/melyssa_greco/c1b5w7hjw6fu/wish/217529892 How can we see these gravitational waves? melyssa_greco https://padlet.com/melyssa_greco/c1b5w7hjw6fu/wish/217531552 2017-12-20 16:21:16 UTC https://padlet.com/melyssa_greco/c1b5w7hjw6fu/wish/217531552 Little explanation video melyssa_greco https://padlet.com/melyssa_greco/c1b5w7hjw6fu/wish/217533173 //www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG5yVKmR33o]]> 2017-12-20 16:26:15 UTC https://padlet.com/melyssa_greco/c1b5w7hjw6fu/wish/217533173