Nerd-nite LA

What are gravitational waves? What kind of astronomical events can generate them? How can we detect them on earth and what can we learn from them? This and much more will be covered in the lecture, telling the story of gravitational waves, and the people and instruments that detected them. From the collision of massive black holes in a galaxy far away to the groundbreaking technologies that were developed to detect the signal they produced. And a look at the future of this field and what it can tell us about the universe, dark matter and dark energy, and quantum gravity.