Stone to Silicon

Math & science · 2015

Gravitational waves detected

LIGO hears two black holes merge 1.3 billion light-years away.

On 14 September 2015 (announced February 2016) its 4 km interferometers measured a stretch smaller than a proton's width. A new way to observe the universe began.

See it in the living treeWikipedia

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 3

What it led to 2

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