The Warped Side of our Universe: From the Big Bang to Black Holes and Gravitational Waves

Authors
Prof.
Kip S. Thorne
Date and time
17 Mar 2010 - 23:00 Europe/London
Address

Aula

Talk language
English
Slides language
English
Serie number
1
Description

There is a "Warped side" of our universe, consisting of objects and phenomena that are made solely or largely from warped spacetime. Examples are black holes, singularities (inside black holes and in the big bang), and cosmic strings. Numerical-relativity simulations are revolutionizing our understanding of what could exist on our universe's Warped Side; and gravitational-wave observations (LIGO, VIRGO, LISA, ...) will reveal what phenomena actually do exist on the Warped Side, and how they behave.

Talk Series
COEFFIS
Talk Video
https://youtu.be/0_eskFNQDBs
LIGO
Gravitational waves
Black holes

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