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Thirty million years ago, in a distant galaxy, two black holes collided. Each black hole is itself a significant disturbance in the fabric of space and time. When they collide, it creates an even greater ripple that gets sent out at the speed of light.
In the world of technology, a person is born called Albert Einstein, who predicts the fact that such a thing as ripples through the fabric of space and time exist. Meanwhile, this ripple continues to move. Einstein predicts we should be able to detect one of these, but we just don’t have the technology yet. That would take another 80 or 90 years just to create the apparatus that could detect it.
We build the apparatus. This is called the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, LIGO. Within days of turning on the switch, that wave washes across the Earth. We detected something that was cast into motion before we were human.
Einstein not only predicted the existence of gravitational waves, he came up with the general theory of relativity. He also laid the foundation for the invention of the laser, and it is lasers that were used to detect the gravitational waves.
That’s badass.
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>>24014653
>two black holes collided.
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>>24014653
Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started, wait
The earth began to cool, the autotrophs began to drool
Neanderthals developed tools
We built a wall (we built the pyramids)
Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries
That all started with the big bang (bang)
Since the dawn of man is really not that long
As every galaxy was formed in less time than it takes to sing this song
A fraction of a second and the elements were made
The bipeds stood up straight, the dinosaurs all met their fate
They tried to leap but they were late
And they all died (they froze their asses off)
The oceans and Pangea, see ya wouldn't wanna be ya
Set in motion by the same big bang
It all started with the big bang
It's expanding ever outward but one day
It will pause and start to go the other way
Collapsing ever inward, we won't be here, it won't be heard
Our best and brightest figure that it'll make an even bigger bang
Australopithecus would really have been sick of us
Debating how we're here, they're catching deer (we're catching viruses)
Religion or astronomy (Descartes or Deuteronomy)
It all started with the big bang
Music and mythology, Einstein and astrology
It all started with the big bang
It all started with the big bang
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