Episode 67
67: The most ambitious measurement ever made, with Dr. Reitze (Part 2)
Spacepod · Carrie Nugent
October 16, 201622m 9s
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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.