Most of you probably already heard the big news since February. Scientists were finally able to confirm Einstein's 100 year old general theory of relativity. Implying basically that gravity is all but a geometric part of what is known as spacetime.
In September, the LIGO Hanford Observatory detected a shift in their measurements. Due the departure of one of the laser beams used to measure any signals involving spacetime, the researchers investigated this heavily until they surely proved that it was indeed caused by gravitational waves that passed over our planet.
What are these? I can't give you an exact answer, so here's all I know from what I've looked up. Gravitational waves are said to be waves of energy spread throughout a long distance of spacetime. Caused by a massive event such as the colliding of 2 black holes or even the big bang. So think of it as a ripple effect in space.
What does this mean? We can now look way further into astronomy and astrophysics and have a whole new insight of how the universe was formed. We can now go into further studies of blackholes, gravity, origins of the universe and even reality itself. That's crazy.
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