Washington DC
FORGET multimillion-dollar spacecraft and elaborate underground labs. The
simplest way to detect gravity waves directly could be to listen to flutters in
the regular bursts of radio waves from distant pulsars.
Any accelerating mass is believed to create ripples in space-time called
gravity waves. They were predicted by Einstein as part of his general theory of
relativity, and people have been trying to pick up these weak and elusive
undulations ever since. If we could detect them, they should reveal valuable
information about the structure of the Universe, and we’d even be able to “see”
mysterious dark matter…
