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'Hope to move forward to make even bigger contribution with an advanced gravitational wave detector in the country,' he added.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday expressed his happiness over historic detection of gravitational waves and lauded the role of Indian scientists in the project. 'Historic detection of gravitational waves opens up new frontier for understanding of universe. Immensely proud that Indian scientists played an important role in this challenging quest,' Prime Minister Modi said in a tweet.
'Hope to move forward to make even bigger contribution with an advanced gravitational wave detector in the country,' he added.
Meanwhile, in an unprecedented revolution which could be the key to new understanding of the universe, a team of physicists announced on Thursday that they had heard and recorded the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light-years away, possibly the biggest breakthrough in physics in a century which can fulfil the last prophecy of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, the New York Times reported.
The ripples in the fabric of space-time which Einstein predicted nearly a century ago, has been proved right by that faint rising tone that physicists claim as the first direct evidence of gravitational waves. It is a ringing confirmation of the nature of black holes, the bottomless gravitational pits from which not even light can escape, which were the most foreboding part of Einstein's theory. On a broader aspect, the news signifies that scientists have finally tapped into the deepest register of physical reality, where the weirdest and wildest implications of Einstein's universe become manifest. (ANI)
Historic detection of gravitational waves opens up new frontier for understanding of universe!
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 11, 2016
Immensely proud that Indian scientists played an important role in this challenging quest.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 11, 2016
Hope to move forward to make even bigger contribution with an advanced gravitational wave detector in the country.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 11, 2016
It took a century, but the theory from Albert Einstein handwritten neatly on paper that is now yellowing has finally been vindicated. Israeli officials today offered a rare look at the documents where Einstein presented his ideas on gravitational waves, a display that coincided with the historic announcement that scientists had glimpsed the first direct evidence of his theory. "Einstein devised this with pen and paper, but it took humanity 100 years to develop the tools to catch a glimpse of it," said Roni Grosz, curator of the Albert Einstein Archives at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, pointing to two pages. One was the first document in which Einstein fully presented his theory of gravitational waves, while the other was a page from his 46-page theory of relativity, written in 1916 and 1915 respectively.
They were written neatly in German, with corrections made within the text. The theory of gravitational waves was developed by the German physicist 100 years ago. In a landmark discovery for physics and astronomy, international scientists announced in Washington today that they had glimpsed the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time. Einstein's theory states that mass warps space and time, much like placing a bowling ball on a trampoline.
Other objects on the surface will "fall" towards the centre -- a metaphor for gravity in which the trampoline is space-time. Gravitational waves do not interact with matter and travel through the universe completely unimpeded. It was a central pillar of Einstein's theory of gravity, but had never been proven. "(The discovery) is a very moving moment," Grosz said, wearing a tie with a picture of Einstein and his familiar bushy hair. "A smile from heaven after exactly 100 years." Einstein himself doubted gravitational waves would ever be detected given how tiny they are. Barak Kol, head of physics at the Hebrew University, explained the size of their impact can be as small as "one thousandths of the nucleus of an atom". Kol, who had worked on trying to prove the theory, said the discovery was a historic day for scientists and those concerned with Einstein's legacy. "It is the end of a part of the journey that took 100 years since it started with the idea of one person," he said.
"(But) it will open a new window to the universe. It will enable us to see processes in the universe."
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