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67: The most ambitious measurement ever made, with Dr. Reitze (Part 2)
Episode 67

67: The most ambitious measurement ever made, with Dr. Reitze (Part 2)

Spacepod · Carrie Nugent

October 16, 201622m 9s

Show Notes

Dr. Dave Reitze, the Executive Director of LIGO, talks about how each source of noise at LIGO must be meticulously accounted for— from wolves howling, to tidal flexing of the Earth's surface, to the motion of the atoms in the observatory's mirrors.