Sentences with phrase «warped by the gravitational waves»

SPACE - TIME can be permanently warped by the gravitational waves that constantly ripple through it.

Not exact matches

Although the gravitational waves are incredibly weak — only enough to warp the distance between Earth and the Sun by the width of a hydrogen atom — LIGO's instruments are extremely sensitive.

My talk on a far more remote subject, «Gravitational Waves From Warped Extra-Dimensional Geometry,» was almost delayed by a tied score until Beckham sent Ecuador out of the running.

LIGO's instruments are designed to detect passing gravitational waves by measuring minuscule expansions and contractions of space - time — warps as little as one - thousandth the diameter of a proton.

Another experiment there, the South Pole Telescope, reported finding B - mode polarization last year, although the signal it saw was at a different angular scale across the sky and was clearly due to the known process of gravitational lensing (a warping of light caused by massive objects) of the CMB by large galaxies, rather than the primordial gravitational waves seen here.