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A reasonable mental model is to view LIGO as a (weird) telescope. Most telescopes work by detecting some form of electromagnetic waves while LIGO works by detec
by eigenket 3y ago
A reasonable mental model is to view LIGO as a (weird) telescope. Most telescopes work by detecting some form of electromagnetic waves while LIGO works by detecting gravitational waves, but its purpose is pretty much the same as any telescope. To tell us stuff about what is happening out in the universe.