Podcasts about Rainer Weiss

What is a gravitational wave? Janna Levin and comedian Matt Kirshen sit down with physicist Rainer Weiss to discuss LIGO, black holes, and the physics of gravitational waves. (Originally Aired October 4, 2016)NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/deciphering-gravitational-waves-janna-levin-startalk-stars/ Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ on Apple Podcasts to listen to new episodes ad-free and a whole week early.

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Rainer Weiss sprach mit Christian Redl anlässlich der Frankfurter Buchmesse über seine zu Beginn dieses Jahres erschienene Autobiografie. Er hat sein Leben aufgeschrieben – ehrlich, aufrichtig, ungeschönt. Aufgewachsen in den fünfziger Jahren unter der Obhut eines kriegstraumatisierten Vaters, macht er gegen den Willen der Eltern eine Ausbildung zum Schauspieler. Schonungslos gegen sich selbst erzählt er von seiner rastlosen Suche nach Erfolg und Anerkennung, von Triumphen am Theater, fantastischen Auszeichnungen sowie von gefährlichen Beziehungen und der Macht des Alkohols, von tiefer Melancholie, Euphorie und Verzweiflung. Aber auch von einer beglückenden späten Liebe, mit der er nicht mehr gerechnet hatte. Besonders bekannt durch seine Rolle als Kommissar Thorsten Krüger in den Spreewaldkrimis.

Remastered from our interview in May 2023 A few months ago, I had the pleasure of interviewing the Nobel Laureate, Barry Barish, for UCTV. Barry is an experimental physicist and a professor at UC Riverside. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.  In our interview, Barry reflects on his life in science, being curious, experiencing imposter syndrome, and working in the field of physics. Tune in!  Key Takeaways:  Intro (00:00) How to get over impostor syndrome (00:40) Exploring curiosity (06:34) The art of science (11:08) The probability of a quantum theory of gravity (21:36) Would Barry visit a black hole? (26:12) Barry's origin story (30:53) Could we make an AI physicist? (42:19) Outro (46:12) — Additional resources: 

In 2011, MIT scientist Rainer Weiss was inspecting his brainchild: LIGO, an observatory for catching gravitational waves — tiny ripples in spacetime created by the motions of massive objects. It hadn't yet found anything. But Weiss mused about what he hoped it would find. WEISS: The thing that I'm hoping for — I hope I'm still alive when it happens — is that we detect a black hole either in its formation or in a coalescence of black holes. That, to me, would be the most remarkable output of this whole project. LIGO hasn't caught the birth of a black hole, but it has discovered 90 gravitational-wave events — almost all of them the mergers of black holes. The discoveries confirmed the existence of black holes and gravitational waves. And they earned Weiss and two colleagues the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. The observatory has two sites, one in southern Washington and the other in Louisiana. They use long vacuum tunnels, lasers, and ultra-precise mirrors to “hear” the waves, which are smaller than the particles in the nucleus of an atom. LIGO shut down when Covid hit, but it's ready to get back to work this month. It's been upgraded, making it much more sensitive. And it'll team with observatories in Japan and Italy, making it even more sensitive. So scientists expect to find many more merging black holes and other objects, out to ranges of billions of light-years — remarkable discoveries from a prize-winning observatory.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

Rai Weiss is a professor emeritus at MIT, where he also earned his undergraduate degree and PhD. He, along with Barry Barish and Kip Thorne, won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves,” work that was completed with the rest of their team of more than a thousand scientists, engineers, technicians, and managers. He has won numerous awards for his pioneering work on both the COBE (NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer) and LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) projects. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Physical Society, and many other professional societies. Weiss is a charming and consummate storyteller. His playful exuberance is incandescent. And I appreciate how forthright he is, as I think it is important to talk about the business of large projects and admit to the shortcomings rather than only discussing them with reverent worshipful praise. I admire that Weiss is relentlessly passionate even into his eighties. Just as a black hole shakes up space-time every few years, Weiss continues to pivot and switch direc- tion himself. It's impossible not to think that this tendency has been responsible for his continued fertility of mind. He is a big-picture thinker that loves to keep things fresh by shaking himself out of complacency.  Available on Amazon: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner About Professor Brian Keating: https://www.youtube.com/drbriankeating Podcast in iTunes https://simonsobservatory.org/ https://briankeating.com/ https://bkeating.physics.ucsd.edu/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/drbriankeating/

In this podcast episode, Lawrence Krauss reconnects with an old friend and Nobel Prize recipient, Barry Barish. They discuss a wide range of topics and explore Barry's own history as well as the history, present, and future of experimental physics. Barry Barish is an American experimental physicist and Nobel Laureate. He is a Linde Professor of Physics, emeritus at California Institute of Technology and a leading expert on gravitational waves. In 2017, Barish was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves". In 2018, he joined the faculty at University of California, Riverside, becoming the university's second Nobel Prize winner on the faculty. iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-origins-podcast/id1467481703 Website: https://www.originsprojectfoundation.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/OriginsProject Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/originsprojectfoundation/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OriginsProject/ The Origins Podcast, a production of The Origins Project Foundation, features in-depth conversations with some of the most interesting people in the world about the issues that impact all of us in the 21st century. Host, theoretical physicist, lecturer, and author, Lawrence M. Krauss, will be joined by guests from a wide range of fields, including science, the arts, and journalism. The topics discussed on The Origins Podcast reflect the full range of the human experience - exploring science and culture in a way that seeks to entertain, educate, and inspire.

MIT Physics Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss won a 1/2 share of The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 For his contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves. He was born in Berlin, where his father was a doctor and psychoanalyst and his mother an actress. His father was of Jewish descent, and the family fled Nazism to the United States. After schooling in New York, Weiss studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his doctor’s degree in 1962. After a couple of years at Tufts University and Princeton University, he returned to MIT, which he has been associated with ever since. Rainer Weiss is married and has a daughter and a son. Professor Weiss’ Nobel winning work come out of one consequence of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, the existence of gravitational waves. These are like ripples in a four-dimensional spacetime that occur when objects with mass accelerate. The effects are very small. Beginning in the 1970s the LIGO detector was developed. In this detector laser technology is used to measure small changes in length caused by gravitational waves. Rainer Weiss has made crucial contributions to the development of the detector. In 2015 gravitational waves were detected for the first time. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:08:00 Concerns about Getting The Nobel Prize 00:12:55 Imposter Syndrome? You too!? 00:18:46 Theorists V Experimentalists pros and cons 00:23:22 Thoughts on STEM Pedagogy 00:27:21 Essential Skills: using your hands and the role of electronics surplus and music. 00:33:39 Dropping Out And Finding MIT and Atomic Clocks 00:35:52 Philosophy of Experimental Science 00:39:44 Thinkng about Einstein-What’s his most cited paper and why? 00:40:54 How do you know when to quit an experiment? 00:42:26 On LIGO and the art and science of detecting weak signals. 00:48:02 Did you have doubts about detecting gravitational waves? Thoughts on Eisntein’s original work on general relativity. 01:00:00 The nature of scientific collaborations (and rivalries). 01:21:00 The circular logic of singularity theory. 01:22:38 What if there was no big bang? 01:26:56 Why did your MIT Dean draw a huge zero? 01:28:10 Staying at MIT 01:30:34 What’s it like to work on “fringe” projects? 01:33:39 Can experiments get too big? 01:40:00 What would you do with your own billion year time capsule? 01:41:00 What advice would you give your younger self? Watch my most popular videos: Sheldon Glashow: https://youtu.be/a0_iaWgxQtA?sub_confirmation=1 Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMuqyAvX7Wo?sub_confirmation=1 Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/3z8RqKMQHe0?sub_confirmation=1 Eric Weinstein: https://youtu.be/YjsPb3kBGnk?sub_confirmation=1 Sir Roger Penrose https://youtu.be/H8G5onAqlVo?sub_confirmation=1 Juan Maldacena’s First Podcast Interview: https://youtu.be/uIzTliTHn7s?sub_confirmation=1 Jim Simons: https://youtu.be/6fr8XOtbPqM?sub_confirmation=1 Sara Seager Venus LIfe: https://youtu.be/QPsEDoOTU6k?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk?sub_confirmation=1 Sarah Scoles: https://youtu.be/apVKobWigMw Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM ‍♂️ Find me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating Find me on Instagram at https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Barry Barish är en amerikansk experimentalfysiker som 2017 som tilldelades Nobelpriset i Fysik tillsammans med Rainer Weiss och Kip Thorne för sitt arbete med gravitationsvågor. I detta avsnitt av podden berättar han brett om allt från sin forskning inom fysiken, vikten av att vara nyfiken och sin personliga relation till Richard Feynman. 

I remember vividly hosting a colloquium speaker, about fifteen years ago, who talked about the LIGO gravitational-wave observatory, which had just started taking data. Comparing where they were to where they needed to get to in terms of sensitivity, the mumblings in the audience after the talk were clear: “They’ll never make it.” Of course we now know that they did, and the 2016 announcement of the detection of gravitational waves led to a 2017 Nobel Prize for Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish. So it’s a great pleasure to have Kip Thorne himself as a guest on the podcast. Kip tells us a bit about he LIGO story, and offers some strong opinions about the Nobel Prize. But he’s had a long and colorful career, so we also talk about whether it’s possible to travel backward in time through a wormhole, and what his future movie plans are in the wake of the success of Interstellar. Kip Thorne received his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University, and is now the Richard Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics (Emeritus) at Caltech. Recognized as one of the world’s leading researchers in general relativity, he has done important work on gravitational waves, black holes, wormholes, and relativistic stars. His role in helping found and guide the LIGO experiment was recognized with the Nobel Prize in 2017. He is the author or co-author of numerous books, including a famously weighty textbook, Gravitation. He was executive producer of the 2014 film Interstellar, which was based on an initial concept by him and Lynda Obst. He’s been awarded too many prizes to list here, and has also been involved in a number of famous bets. Caltech page Wikipedia page Nobel Prize citation Nobel Lecture Amazon.com author page Internet Movie Database page

Uma prosa sobre os prêmios Nobel de 2016. Fisiologia ou Medicina – Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young “Pela descoberta do mecanismo molecular que controla o ritmo circadiano” Química – Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson “Pelo desenvolvimento da microscopia crioeletrônica para determinação estrutural de alta-resolução de biomoléculas em solução” Física – Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne “Pelas contribuições decisivas no detector LIGO e a observação de ondas gravitacionais” Economia – Richard H. Thaler “Pelas suas contribuições à economia comportamental”

Uma prosa sobre os prêmios Nobel de 2016. Fisiologia ou Medicina – Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young “Pela descoberta do mecanismo molecular que controla o ritmo circadiano” Química – Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson “Pelo desenvolvimento da microscopia crioeletrônica para determinação estrutural de alta-resolução de biomoléculas em solução” Física – Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne “Pelas contribuições decisivas no detector LIGO e a observação de ondas gravitacionais” Economia – Richard H. Thaler “Pelas suas contribuições à economia comportamental”

Edmaris Carazo, a blogger in San Juan, adjusts to life in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Also: the destruction in Puerto Rico has a ripple effect on hospitals on the US mainland; reporter Jason Margolis investigates where trickle-down tax policies have been tried and worked outside of America; Jamaica tries to get in on the marijuana market but some farmers worry about being left behind; a conversation with Rainer Weiss, the Nobel Laureate, who detected ripples in the fabric of space and time. (Image: Hospitals in the US mainland are facing shortages of IV fluids and medicine because of Hurricane Maria's damage to Puerto Rico. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

El Premio Nobel de Física 2017 fue otorgado a Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne y Barry Barish por sus contribuciones a la tecnología que permitió el descubrimiento de las ondas gravitacionales en 2015. Pero qué son estas ondas gravitacionales predichas por Albert Einstein hace un siglo y cuál es la importancia de este descubrimiento.

Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall 00:02:51 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017 was awarded to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm". 00:08:40 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 was divided, one half awarded to Rainer Weiss, the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves". 00:14:52 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 was awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution". 00:20:18 They don't have brains, but jellyfish still seem to sleep. Three Caltech students studied jellyfish slumber and found it to be similar, but not the same, as human sleep. 00:28:58 Two separate teams have made the first detections of the roughly half of the normal matter in our universe unaccounted for by previous observations of stars, galaxies and other bright objects in space. This is not Dark Matter, but baryonic matter. 00:35:00 The kakapo is the world's largest flightless parrot, and it's critically endangered. But a conservation program aims to sequence the genome of every surviving kakapo, gathering considerably more data on the iconic New Zealand native.   This episode contains traces of a rare kakapo parrot meeting zoologist Mark Carwardine.  

Nicolás Guerschberg celebra el Premio Nobel de Física 2017, otorgado a Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne y Barry Barish, científicos que lograron probar la existencia de ondas gravitacionales, comprobando la predicción de Albert Einstein en su Teoría de la Relatividad General. El Maestro G le comenta a Pipi Piazzolla la relación de este tema con la composición, y recuerda ejemplos de físicos fuertemente ligados a la música. Violinista desde su infancia, el propio Einstein. Pianista, Werner Karl Heisenberg, el físico alemán inspirador además del álter ego de Walter White en la serie Breaking Bad. Guitarrista, compositor y vocalista, Brian May, quien llegó a doctorarse en Astrofísica. Playlist: Partitas para violín solo, de Johann Sebastian Bach; Divertimento para cuerdas, de Béla Bartok; Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen  

Albert Einstein ennusti sata vuotta sitten, että gravitaatioaaltoja on olemassa. Noihin aikoihin heräsi kuitenkin epäilys, ettei niitä voida havaita. Useita vuosikymmeniä vienyt kehitys- ja tutkimusrupeama johti lopulta siihen, että gravitaatioaalto havaittiin ensimmäisen kerran syyskuussa 2015 Yhdysvalloissa LIGO-hankkeessa, jossa hyvin heikko gravitaatioaallon signaali havaitaan laser-interferometrian avulla. Kyseinen aalto oli peräisin kahden mustan aukon törmäämisestä kaukana avaruudessa. Nyt palkittavat fyysikot Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish ja Kip Thorne ovat olleet ratkaisevassa asemassa LIGO-hankkeessa. Ensimmäisen gravitaatioaaltohavainnon jälkeen on tehty kolme uuttakin havaintoa, niistä viimeisin julkistettiin vasta hiukan yli viikko sitten. Fysiikan Nobeliin johtaneesta gravitaatioaaltotutkimuksesta ja sen merkityksestä ovat haastateltavana professori Kari Enqvist ja dosentti Hannu Kurki-Suonio Helsingin yliopistosta. Ohjelman loppupuolella vilkaistaan lokakuun tähtitaivaalle, joka pilvettöminä öinä tarjoilee planeettoja ja hohtavan Linnunradan. Orionidien tähdenlentoparvi lentää lokakuussa ja sen maksimi osuu 21. päivään. Haastateltavana on professori Markku Poutanen. Ohjelman toimittaa Sisko Loikkanen.

A little more than a hundred years ago, Albert Einstein worked out a consequence of his new theory of gravity: Much like waves traveling through water, ripples can undulate through space and time, distorting the fabric of the universe itself. Today, Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for decades of work that culminated in the detection of gravitational waves in 2015—and several times since—by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Emily and Chris sat down with UMD physics professor Peter Shawhan, a member of the LIGO collaboration, to learn more about gravitational waves and hear a sliver of the story behind this year's Nobel Prize. This episode of Relatively Certain was produced by Chris Cesare and Emily Edwards. It features music by Dave Depper. Relatively Certain is a production of the Joint Quantum Institute, a research partnership between the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and you can find it on iTunes, Google Play or Soundcloud.

As you may already know, yesterday, the Nobel Prize in Physics, 2017 was announced: it went to Kip Thorne, Barry Barish, and Rainer Weiss for their contributions towards the LIGO collaboration that detected gravitational waves. In this special episode, I'll talk a little bit about the history of the Nobel prizes, explain what they were looking for at LIGO, how they found it, and what it means. So if you ever wondered what a gravitational wave was but were too afraid to ask, hopefully, it'll help you out. Stay tuned at the end for a marathon housekeeping session where I once again appeal for listener questions. 

Ha sido uno de los grandes descubrimientos científicos del siglo: el 14 de septiembre de 2015, por primera vez, el observatorio LIGO fue capaz de captar un pulso de ondas gravitacionales, una vibración del propio espacio-tiempo. Desde ese mismo momento toda la comunidad sabía que los promotores de este experimento eran firmes candidatos al Premio Nobel, y ha ocurrido sólo dos años después: Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish y Kip Thorne han conseguido el Nobel de Física. En este capítulo trataremos de explicar qué es una onda gravitacional, cómo podemos imaginar esas oscilaciones del propio tejido del espacio-tiempo. Si os interesan las ondas gravitacionales en La Brújula de la Ciencia hemos hablado varias veces sobre ellas. Escuchad los capítulos s02e27, s05e23, s07e10, s05e16 y s03e25. Buscad también un par de audios de Alberto Aparici sobre ondas gravitacionales en el programa Más de Uno y en las noticias de Antena 3. Este programa se emitió originalmente el 3 de octubre de 2017. Podéis escuchar el resto de audios de La Brújula en su canal de iVoox y en la web de Onda Cero, ondacero.es

The Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".  

The Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".  

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded today to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne for their contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.

A little more than a hundred years ago, Albert Einstein worked out a consequence of his new theory of gravity: Much like waves traveling through water, ripples can undulate through space and time, distorting the fabric of the universe itself. Today, Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for decades of work that culminated in the detection of gravitational waves in 2015—and several times since—by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).Emily and Chris sat down with UMD physics professor Peter Shawhan, a member of the LIGO collaboration, to learn more about gravitational waves and hear a sliver of the story behind this year's Nobel Prize.This episode of Relatively Certain was produced by Chris Cesare and Emily Edwards. It features music by Dave Depper. Relatively Certain is a production of the Joint Quantum Institute, a research partnership between the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and you can find it on iTunes, Google Play or Soundcloud.

Nagrodę Nobla 2017 z fizyki otrzymali Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish oraz Kip S. Thorne za odkrycie fal grawitacyjnych w detektorach LIGO/VIRGO Nobel 2017 z fizyki został przyznany za wciąż gorące odkrycie – to jednak rzadkość. Odkrycie fal grawitacyjnych, choć jest efektem wielu dekad pracy, miało miejsce 14 września 2015 roku. Do Ziemi dotarł potężny [...]

What are gravitational waves, and what can they tell us about our universe? In her first outing as StarTalk All-Star host, cosmologist Janna Levin untangles the astrophysics with help from LIGO co-founder Rainer Weiss and comic co-host Matt Kirshen.

What are gravitational waves, and what can they tell us about our universe? In her first outing as StarTalk All-Star host, cosmologist Janna Levin untangles the astrophysics with help from LIGO co-founder Rainer Weiss and comic co-host Matt Kirshen.

What are gravitational waves, and what can they tell us about our universe? In her first outing as StarTalk All-Star host, cosmologist Janna Levin untangles the astrophysics with help from LIGO co-founder Rainer Weiss and comic co-host Matt Kirshen.

What are gravitational waves, and what can they tell us about our universe? In her first outing as StarTalk All-Star host, cosmologist Janna Levin untangles the astrophysics with help from LIGO co-founder Rainer Weiss and comic co-host Matt Kirshen.

What are gravitational waves, and what can they tell us about our universe? In her first outing as StarTalk All-Star host, cosmologist Janna Levin untangles the astrophysics with help from LIGO co-founder Rainer Weiss and comic co-host Matt Kirshen.

Caltech’s Kip Thorne and Ronald Drever and MIT’s Rainer Weiss were the founders of the LIGO experiment that detected gravitational waves. They were just awarded the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics and two of them spoke with Scientific American 's Clara Moskowitz about LIGO and the public's reaction.  

On Thursday, February 11, 2016, the National Science Foundation made a thrilling announcement: gravitational waves—first predicted by Einstein as part of his general theory of relativity in 1916—had been detected for the first time. This incredible development made front page news and was reported by outlets across the country. How was such a remarkable discovery, a long hundred years after Einstein’s prediction, made possible? In this Science Salon based on her new book, Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space, astrophysicist and award-winning writer Dr. Janna Levin tells the epic story of the scientific campaign to record these waves—the holy grail of modern cosmology. A handful of physicists, led by Kip Thorne and Ronald Drever at Caltech and Rainer Weiss at MIT, have been working nearly their entire careers to conceive of, design, and build an instrument sensitive enough to detect gravitational waves. Levin delves into the lives and fates of the scientists, painting compelling portraits of these very human visionaries. She journeys from Los Angeles to Boston, to the LIGO interferometers in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, Louisiana, to the labs, offices, and observatories where the work in this great quest has painstakingly unfolded over the past five decades. Her account of the personalities, surprises, setbacks, and successes is a compelling and intimate portrait of the people and processes of modern science.