EPISODE · Feb 24, 2020 · 54 MIN
2402 Hpc Weiss En
from Hyde Park Civilizace · host Věda 24
He lived in Czechoslovakia. He built hi-fi systems. He dropped out of school. He came up with the idea for a gravitational wave detector. He helped build the LIGO detector. For this, he received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. Professor Rainer Weiss. How do you build a system that can capture such tiny changes in spacetime? What is the most important next direction in space research? And what does he remember of his life in Czechoslovakia? https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10441294653-hyde-park-civilizace/220411058090222/
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He lived in Czechoslovakia. He built hi-fi systems. He dropped out of school. He came up with the idea for a gravitational wave detector. He helped build the LIGO detector. For this, he received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. Professor Rainer Weiss. How do you build a system that can capture such tiny changes in spacetime? What is the most important next direction in space research? And what does he remember of his life in Czechoslovakia? https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10441294653-hyde-park-civilizace/220411058090222/
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