The winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne attend the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm on December 10, 2017. Credit: Les Guthman/Advanced LIGO Documentary Project
Two More LIGO Documentary Videos Released
News Release • October 18, 2019
Episodes 6 and 7 of Les Guthman's documentary "LIGO: A Discovery that Shook the World", have been released.
In Episode 6, "Movies Made from Numbers," LIGO scientists show how LIGO's spectacular animations of colliding black holes and neutron stars are based on LIGO data, not on aritsts' ideas of how the events might look. These scientific visualizations are movies made from the millions of numbers produced by super computers when they try to simulate and confirm an event using Einstein's complex equations of general relativity.
In Episode 7, "Stockholm," the film crew accompanies Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss and Barry Barish during Nobel Week 2017, and the award ceremony on December 10. In the end piece, Barry talks about what affected him most deeply in Stockholm.
Watch below:
EPISODE 6 - LIGO: A DISCOVERY THAT SHOOK THE WORLD from aLIGO Documentary Project on Vimeo.
EPISODE 7 - LIGO: A DISCOVERY THAT SHOOK THE WORLD from aLIGO Documentary Project on Vimeo.
Episodes 4 and 5 were released earlier this week. These and other episodes of the series are available in the video gallery.
