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I'm going to tell you the story of how, with the work of hundreds of scientists working in many countries over the course of many decades, just recently, in 2015, we discovered those gravitational waves for the first time.
It started slowly, but as they emitted gravitational waves, they grew closer together, accelerating in speed, until, when they were revolving at almost the speed of light, they fused into a single black hole that had 60 times the mass of the Sun, but compressed into the space of 360 kilometers.
This incredible effect produced gravitational waves that carried the news of this cosmic hug to the rest of the universe.
It took us a long time to figure out the effects of these gravitational waves, because the way we measure them is by looking for effects in distances.
They were gravitational waves.
Despite the fact that these are space-time waves and not sound waves, we like to put them into loudspeakers and listen to them.
People frequently ask me now: "What can gravitational waves be used for?
And now that you've discovered them, what else is there left to do?" What can gravitational waves be used for?
We like to say that gravitational waves now have a purpose, because we're opening up a new way to explore the universe.
Until now, we were able to see the light of the stars via electromagnetic waves.
Now we can listen to the sound of the universe, even of things that don't emit light, like gravitational waves.
Can't we derive any technology from gravitational waves?
We've developed the technology to detect them, but in terms of the waves themselves, maybe we'll discover 100 years from now that they are useful.
We'll be able to see rotating stars in our galaxy produce sinusoidal waves.
They said, "It's all right, you can detect radio waves from the Sun, but the Sun is the only object in the universe that's close enough and bright enough actually to be detectable.
You can easily calculate that radio waves from the Sun are fairly faint, and everything else in the universe is millions of times further away, so it certainly will not be detectable.
Shipping containers washed overboard, and the waves swept 28,000 rubber ducks and other toys into the North Pacific.
Claps of thunder and flashes of lightning illuminate a swelling sea, as a ship buckles beneath the waves.
Part of the problem, I think, is we stand at the beach, or we see images like this of the ocean, and you look out at this great big blue expanse, and it's shimmering and it's moving and there's waves and there's surf and there's tides, but you have no idea for what lies in there.
I have a nightmare that one day the lighthouses of our humanity will crumble, corroded by acid waves of hate.
Like other waves in physics, ocean waves represent a transfer of energy.
Wind blowing across the ocean accelerates water particles near the surface, leading to the growth of ripples that become waves.
As the waves then move through the water, particles push and pull on their neighbors through the wave induced pressure, and this motion propagates energy through the water in unison with the wave motion.
The motion of these particles is much more limited than the overall motion of the waves.
Near the shore, the shallower seafloor constrains the motion of the waves to occur in a more limited region than out at sea, concentrating the wave energy near the surface.
If the topography of the shoreline is even and smooth, this will refract the waves to become more parallel to the shore as they approach.
This forms the waves’ characteristic curls, or jets, as they break along the shore.
Offshore underwater canyons or rock formations in certain locations like Nazare, Portugal or Mavericks, California refract the incoming wave energy into a single spot, creating massive waves sought by surfers worldwide.
And some of these waves travel for more than a week, with swells originating more than 10,000 kilometers away from shore.
And the waves we surf, created by wind, are just one visible part of the continuous oscillation of energy that has shaped our universe since its very beginning.
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