Press Tour
On Sunday afternoon a gaggle of reporters crossed the Charles River to MIT for a press tour of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) lab. MIT professor Matthew Evans showed the group around and explained how the upgrades being implemented for the Advanced LIGO project should — with any luck — result in a firm detection of gravitational waves before this decade is out.
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On Sunday afternoon a gaggle of reporters crossed the Charles River to MIT for a press tour of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) lab. MIT professor Matthew Evans (at right) showed the group around and explained how the upgrades being implemented for the Advanced LIGO project should — with any luck — result in a firm detection of gravitational waves before this decade is out. Photo by Rick Fienberg © 2014 AAS.
