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By the time we made the discovery in 2015, the National Science Foundation had put close to $1.1 billion into it. - Rainer Weiss
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The whole idea of gravity curling up space, that is the epitome of what is going on in a black hole. I would've loved to have seen Einstein's face if he were presented with the data that we actually discovered such a thing, because he himself probably didn't believe in much of it. - Rainer Weiss
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People say, 'I failed out of college! My life is over!' Well, it's not over. It depends on what you do with it. - Rainer Weiss
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My parents were singularly uninterested in me. My father was too self-centered and too busy with his own practice to pay a lot of attention to me, and my mother was probably deflected more by my sister. - Rainer Weiss
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We knew about black holes in other ways, and we knew about neutron stars - well, those are the two things that ultimately got seen. - Rainer Weiss
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We know about black holes and neutron stars, but we hope there are other phenomena we can see because of the gravitational waves they emit. - Rainer Weiss
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We've seen black holes, which is already wonderful. We also expect to see the merger of neutron stars, and that was a thing that actually gave this field a certain credibility when it was discovered that there were pairs of neutron stars in our galaxy, and people stopped laughing at us when that was found out. - Rainer Weiss
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I didn't understand the Weber bar and how gravitational waves interacted with it. I sat and thought about it over a weekend, trying to prepare for the lecture for the following Monday. I asked myself how would I do it. The simplest way... was a thought experiment. - Rainer Weiss
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Most of us fully expect that we're going to learn things we didn't know about. - Rainer Weiss
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The students on my course were fascinated by the idea that gravitational waves might exist. I didn't know much about them at all, and for the life of me, I could not understand how a bar interacts with a gravitational wave. - Rainer Weiss
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A gravitational wave is a very slight stretching in one dimension. If there's a gravitational wave traveling towards you, you get a stretch in the dimension that's perpendicular to the direction it's moving. And then perpendicular to that first stretch, you have a compression along the other dimension. - Rainer Weiss
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One of the things I sort of dreamt about awhile ago is that if Einstein were still alive, it would be absolutely wonderful to go to him and tell him about the discovery, and he would have been very pleased, I'm sure of that. - Rainer Weiss
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We're going to be seeing things from regions in the universe where Einstein is the whole story. Newton you can forget about. - Rainer Weiss
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All of this technology wasn't available to Einstein. I bet he would've invented LIGO. - Rainer Weiss
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I said, suppose you take a light - I was thinking of just light bulbs because, in those days, lasers were not yet really there - and sent a light pulse between two masses. Then you do the same when there's a gravitational wave. Lo and behold, you see that the time it takes light to go from one mass to the other changes because of the wave. - Rainer Weiss
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Over and over in the history of astronomy, a new instrument finds things we never expected to see. - Rainer Weiss
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For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books and science fiction, our gravitational wave discoveries have had an amazing public impact. - Rainer Weiss
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