The Sound of Gravity

Albert Einstein had a theory. MIT scientists help prove it a century later.
Learn more about LIGO and the search for gravitational waves: science.mit.edu/big-stories/d...
Directed by Sarah Klein & Tom Mason of Redglass Pictures for the MIT School of Science. Originally appeared on nytimes.com (www.nytimes.com/video/opinion...)
Executive Producer: Michael Sipser
Supervising Producer: Julia C. Keller
Editor: Tom Mason
Field Audio: John Osborne
Production Assistant: Patrice Howard
Associate Editor: Heather Martino
Graphics and Animation: Sean Latrelle
Color Grade: Stephen Derluguian
Sound Mix: Silver Sound
Special thanks to:
Rai Weiss, Professor of Physics Emeritus
Professors Nergis Mavalvala and Scott Hughes
In collaboration with the MIT School of Science
LIGO is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Additional thanks to:
The LIGO Team at MIT and CalTech
LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC)
LIGO Hanford
LIGO Livingston
Dean Michael Sipser
David Shoemaker
Marie Woods
Debbie Meinbresse
Laura Carter
Brittany Flaherty
Cliff Braverman
Koorosh Farchadi
Rachael Robinson
Ariel Weinberg
Music:
“Rise Up” by Ryan Sayward Whittier
“Camille Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre” by Kevin MacLeod
“Gnossienne” by TransAlp
“La Ere Gymnopedie (Satie)” by Peter Johnston
“Hatching” by Jeff Lardner and Mark Allaway
“Persistence” by Paul Mottram
“Bodum” by Steven Gutheinz
“Anti Gravity” by Dan Skinner and Adam Skinner
“Infinity” by Steven Gutheinz
“Getting Away with Murder” by Luke Richards
Additional footage and graphics provided by:
LIGO footage provided by Kai Staats
LIGO 3D model provided by Caltech
Animation funded by Sonoma State, NSF grant 1404215.
Mary Jane Doherty, Gravity 1985
Einstein’s Messengers
National Science Foundation
Thomas Lucas Productions
European Space Agency
Space Telescope Science Institute
Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes Project
Nobel Prize Foundation
CBS
MIT Museum
NASA
LIGO
Learn more about the latest findings from MIT-Caltech LIGO: www.ligo.caltech.edu/mit

Пікірлер: 96

  • @abhineetagarwal4550
    @abhineetagarwal45503 жыл бұрын

    Thanks KZread, for suggesting this. Good going, Dr Weiss.

  • @bijoylalbandyopadhyay

    @bijoylalbandyopadhyay

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same here

  • @abhinavchinta2794
    @abhinavchinta27943 жыл бұрын

    this is truly revolutionary. MIT never fails to impress!

  • @shivankarsingh7913
    @shivankarsingh79133 жыл бұрын

    *Trust me,* You can have 2nd Albert Einstein, *BUT NOT 2nd Rainer Weiss.*

  • @ArchietDev

    @ArchietDev

    3 жыл бұрын

    He had sooo much of belief in his idea that he went for an "all out" search for the idea. A true explorer

  • @artronicsyt

    @artronicsyt

    3 жыл бұрын

    he just used his whole life to this and yes it was worth it we here making comments , and tha'ts all what we can do

  • @demodesk2471

    @demodesk2471

    2 жыл бұрын

    Einstein was one of a kind

  • @SUMITGUPTA-wd1kc
    @SUMITGUPTA-wd1kc3 жыл бұрын

    👏👏👏👏👏 This is how a student want like to study hello professor.. Thanks to share your own experience. with students who are part of college

  • @shinarajaglal
    @shinarajaglal3 жыл бұрын

    I love the Eric Satie at the end!

  • @srikarmukkamala1670
    @srikarmukkamala16703 жыл бұрын

    The fantastic Physics takes us through a miraculous discovery in nature. The last question by Prof. Weiss made me get goosebumps!!

  • @sparto5571
    @sparto55713 жыл бұрын

    So simple yet so complex.

  • @akshatmishra4504
    @akshatmishra45043 жыл бұрын

    eyes filled with tears.

  • @karekokf3740
    @karekokf37403 жыл бұрын

    Thank for all, Dr. Weiss

  • @Mtmtmtmtmtmtmtmtmtmtmt
    @Mtmtmtmtmtmtmtmtmtmtmt3 жыл бұрын

    This was a MAGNIFICENT video of amazing quality! Looking forward to more inspiring ones like this 👍

  • @user-sx9lb1uv5m
    @user-sx9lb1uv5m Жыл бұрын

    Thank you😊 So cool loved it! Wonderful to see how it was put together !

  • @PhysicsNomad01
    @PhysicsNomad014 ай бұрын

    This is the best science documentary I have ever seen!!

  • @yingdongduan205
    @yingdongduan2053 жыл бұрын

    Pay my great appreciation and respect for those who love and insist science exploring!

  • @RvrRaiderD1
    @RvrRaiderD19 ай бұрын

    Well done 👏Weiss's line at the very end hit me right in the gut. You can see passion for the future of science in his eyes, and the mortal pain of not being around to see it.

  • @MrBikashchachan
    @MrBikashchachan3 жыл бұрын

    A very very great video....this should be recommended to everybody....its a thousand times better than a movie and is definitely needed to be watched

  • @yasheshratnakar9750
    @yasheshratnakar97503 жыл бұрын

    Extremely concise and self explainable.

  • @wyatony
    @wyatonyАй бұрын

    Incredible story and so well produced

  • @dhruvmalik7721
    @dhruvmalik77213 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for recommending 👍

  • @anachuecasancho1824
    @anachuecasancho18242 жыл бұрын

    Very GOOD DOC. Beautiful...!

  • @bhavinpithawala3967
    @bhavinpithawala39673 жыл бұрын

    sorry for being late, but thank you so much for this finding.

  • @r25_suyashmeshram62
    @r25_suyashmeshram623 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for information

  • @monishravulapally9097
    @monishravulapally90973 жыл бұрын

    I think people still don't realise how important his foundation was. The cosmos will be looked from a whole new perspective from now considering these breakthroughs. And its sad to see people like weiss Ageing. He resembles brilliance to the infinity.

  • @shingamba
    @shingamba3 жыл бұрын

    This is simply spectacular.

  • @rickdas354
    @rickdas3543 жыл бұрын

    Amazing!

  • @martinabiber2382
    @martinabiber23822 жыл бұрын

    thank you for sharing, sometimes i can feel them . and sometimes i feel how the puls of earth change. not knowing but thinking of the possibility thats the answer is great and wonderful. i hope someday you can show how it affects people , because it goes through everything.

  • @abdulshakoorshaikh9754
    @abdulshakoorshaikh97543 жыл бұрын

    I feel good be the first ever subscriber of this channel.

  • @sundae9897
    @sundae9897 Жыл бұрын

    Gravitational wave detectors if I remember right. Then you amplify the sound of the waves till we are able to hear it

  • @nebinmahesh8340
    @nebinmahesh83403 жыл бұрын

    Recommend me more of these.

  • @piyushgupta6693
    @piyushgupta66933 жыл бұрын

    It's the greatest discovery, great 🔥

  • @demodesk2471
    @demodesk24712 жыл бұрын

    great !!! amazing

  • @luceres7450
    @luceres74503 жыл бұрын

    So atmospheric video

  • @martinmisfer5462
    @martinmisfer54623 жыл бұрын

    Claps and Tears

  • @amandeep_89
    @amandeep_892 жыл бұрын

    cycle of science goes on and on

  • @artheriu
    @artheriu3 жыл бұрын

    Bravo!

  • @Ufaizan
    @Ufaizan Жыл бұрын

    It's generally to Motivative

  • @me.etchaudhari
    @me.etchaudhari3 жыл бұрын

    A great video indeed. I have watched tens of videos of Ray Weiss and about gravitational waves but this one just made me skip a heart beat.

  • @242prandipkeot6
    @242prandipkeot63 жыл бұрын

    Really interesting 😊

  • @RakibsCSE
    @RakibsCSE3 жыл бұрын

    at 9:00 : goosebumps...!!!

  • @pashamolchanov7196
    @pashamolchanov71963 жыл бұрын

    Восхитительно! Очень вдохновляет на исследования природы

  • @abhiiitb5051
    @abhiiitb50513 жыл бұрын

    Wow, this is fascinating for a physics lover, like me😍

  • @sidharthvyas5883
    @sidharthvyas58833 жыл бұрын

    That's incredible

  • @radhikapandey4530
    @radhikapandey45303 жыл бұрын

    That is beautiful

  • @omkaracharya1993
    @omkaracharya19933 жыл бұрын

    amazing

  • @udayverma72
    @udayverma723 жыл бұрын

    Salute to you sir, salute to LIGO, SALUTE TO MIT

  • @informing_
    @informing_3 жыл бұрын

    This must have millions of views

  • @rosalina5755

    @rosalina5755

    2 жыл бұрын

    No people are too busy watching tiktokers doing the same dances with the same music over and over again

  • @informing_

    @informing_

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rosalina5755 That's the problem, we'll soon lose to authoritarianism aka China, because they focus on science and produce value instead of dopamine giving-videos on tiktok

  • @rosalina5755

    @rosalina5755

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@informing_ im not American, u guys have way better conditions than us what a shame a lot of the population misuse that privilege and instead only focus on things like gender and sexuality. Here (third world country) a lot of us would love to get a better education but the government doesn’t give the slightest shit about us. Some of us have to take a bus full of people during covid and study for 8 hours with only one hour to “eat” (sometimes the administration kicks u out of school for no reason) even if u love learning,they make u hate it.

  • @informing_

    @informing_

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rosalina5755 Education? Well first of all I live in Greece, Europe but I think we have very similar governments that dont give a sht, but education is something that CANT be given by the state, you can learn in libraries on the internet or in colleges, best thing in our times is learning online, anyway I agree with you

  • @rosalina5755

    @rosalina5755

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@informing_ i just assumed you were American judging by the flag in your profile photo 😂

  • @AkashSharma-yu2ji
    @AkashSharma-yu2ji3 жыл бұрын

    It's the most beautiful question.

  • @i.m.Q.2
    @i.m.Q.2 Жыл бұрын

    I'm looking for something somewhat specific here as I've seen the chart like the one at 10:02 before; im confused here. I have a background in DSP, and I'm trying to put things together before I write a formal paper and research concurrently. Every chart I see has frequency as the range. I see the time domain (which im assuming is observed time vs proper time). I don't see anything labeled energy. Unless there are 2 plots, the top most plot being frequency and the bottom the standard time-energy plot, it doesn't quite add up. I just noticed the 2nd plot here as other places seem misinformative for whatever reason(s). The screns on your computer scene and the shot from the research paper seem inline with what I'm looking for. Do you know of a credible source where I can find the time-energy plot itself of some given gravity wave? If I had clarification on the one with 2 observatories, that might be perfect. Also as a side note, I swear you guys at MIT are the only people that have as expansive, detailed and credible technical information on here. It's been of huge help to me to promote understanding. Now and then I'll come across something comparable from Cal Tech, but you guys have them beat hands down. Thanks in advance!

  • @lalithaevani5942
    @lalithaevani59423 жыл бұрын

    inspiring

  • @augenenanning334
    @augenenanning3343 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful nature sounds. Didn't really need the music.

  • @amandeep_89
    @amandeep_892 жыл бұрын

    great peoples great mind

  • @debabratadutta6
    @debabratadutta63 жыл бұрын

    Wow

  • @artronicsyt
    @artronicsyt3 жыл бұрын

    It's obvious We want to find out if there is big living things outside earth, or outside our solar system what I am assuming is that if we, in our small lifespan , find a collision of two black holes, there has to be Billions and billions of black holes( idk bout the numbers) well if that is something to go by, in my imagination atleast , it's nearly impossible for life to not be out there, it has to be there, somewhere And still if , we are the only living things in thins universe capable of powerful thinking we shouldn't be wasting that gift or that blessing that we have we should probably be more efficient , so that we can get our maximum potential people who commit suicide , are unlucky , it's just wasting of one just ONE Golden Opportunity that we got to prove ourselves and yet NO I am not saying that I am perfect no one is perfect let's assume for now that we all have a role to do in our lifespan, towards what is coming I feel like I am born too early maybe another 1000 years later should have been hopeful but who knows if the earth would still be functioning in the next 100 years in that case I should consider myself lucky whatever , I felt like this is a perfect video to express my feelings If someone has seen this and has actually managed to read this till here , I appreciate it.

  • @numbtee8478

    @numbtee8478

    3 жыл бұрын

    You are not alone......pun intended...;)

  • @stopasking9745

    @stopasking9745

    3 жыл бұрын

    Black holes in general have always piqued my curiosity where do they lead? what's on the other side? Where did it get its immense of pressure or gravity or whatever is eating up everything including light...I'm definitely not an MIT student just a curious mind with a poor education

  • @deadly.desai2
    @deadly.desai23 жыл бұрын

    Me at 4 am - F**k Yeah.. Black Holes !!

  • @theubiwhovian
    @theubiwhovian3 жыл бұрын

    Just 653 subscribers, the heck?! Why?

  • @deadly.desai2
    @deadly.desai23 жыл бұрын

    That's so tiny.. that's ridiculous... That's so small of a fraction.... Anyways, we built the prototype .

  • @mahatir8173
    @mahatir81733 жыл бұрын

    Enstain's theory become a reality

  • @murilloprestesvilla9539
    @murilloprestesvilla95393 жыл бұрын

    Does light (or photons) have mass? I saw somewhere that mass come from interactions with the higgs field and that photons does not interact with the field. So, assuming light does not have mass, why it can't escape a black hole? To interact with a gravitational field a thing doesn't have to have mass? Or it is some reason completely different? If someone can explain it simple I would appreciate, I am not from physics. Thanks.

  • @juanpeft4593

    @juanpeft4593

    3 жыл бұрын

    I’m merely a high school junior so please take my answer with a grain of salt. Light travels in a straight line through strait spacetime so the curving of spacetime causes light to follow a curved path as well. This curvature is very subtle and so isn’t noticed in earth. However, since the gravitational force of a black hole is extremely big, this bending becomes much more significant

  • @murilloprestesvilla9539

    @murilloprestesvilla9539

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@juanpeft4593 Hi, thank you. I think your answer is in the right way. I also thought about the bending of space, that the bent space around a black hole keeps light trapped in some way. But that doesn't make a lot of sense to me, because the light had to get in in this bent space first, so why it can get in but not get out. It should be a really special bending. I don't know if what I said makes any sense. Anyway, I appreciate your answer.

  • @juanpeft4593

    @juanpeft4593

    3 жыл бұрын

    Murillo Prestes Villa I would imagine that it is due to the fact that the bending of spacetime grows bigger as light approaches the black hole, so light isn’t affected as much when it approaches the black hole versus when it tries to get out because to get out it has to overcome the most “resistance”. I hope I expressed myself well and sorry for any typos

  • @Amandeep-kx8jl

    @Amandeep-kx8jl

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@murilloprestesvilla9539 we never know where the black hole ends or what's going inside it. maybe it is a topic of research

  • @gourav9677
    @gourav96773 жыл бұрын

    Revolution and my god Einstein sir was right

  • @GreenPartyofMalaysia
    @GreenPartyofMalaysia Жыл бұрын

    Can you hears the phonons creak?

  • @dhimanroy2831
    @dhimanroy28313 жыл бұрын

    Well , isnt gravity null at the centre of the earth , what about the condition of effect of gravity in the middle of the earth ???

  • @shashanktripathi7514
    @shashanktripathi75143 жыл бұрын

    Happy to see so many Indian here.

  • @_Ramen-Vac_
    @_Ramen-Vac_ Жыл бұрын

    I know what black holes actually "are".

  • @himanshut114
    @himanshut1143 жыл бұрын

    I would like to harness the power of graduation 🙏🏼🙏🏼 ..... Unlimited free supply of energy and transport 🙏🏼🙏🏼

  • @mahira4919

    @mahira4919

    3 жыл бұрын

    Your username is..............something

  • @ramcharykasturoji5202

    @ramcharykasturoji5202

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hitler helped india 🙄

  • @himanshut114

    @himanshut114

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@mahira4919 .... Hitler provided prisoners of war to neta ji subhash chandra bose ..... And he created Indian National Army 🔥🔥🔥

  • @ViperOptix
    @ViperOptix2 жыл бұрын

    where is the edge of the universe?

  • @rajatpandaypanday6650
    @rajatpandaypanday665011 ай бұрын

    Sir my name Rajat pandey I want study about astronomy physics but I have no money I am talented student but due to some financial problem I can not study this subject My high school percent is 92 percent My intermediate percent is 74 percent

  • @bidyutpravaray4145
    @bidyutpravaray41453 жыл бұрын

    🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳👍👏👏👏

  • @sirarachnington
    @sirarachnington2 жыл бұрын

    Anyone else here from Overwatch?

  • @einnigrengaw7019
    @einnigrengaw7019 Жыл бұрын

    God said he created all things. To wonderful to speak of. Humanity was created to discover Science. So that we could finally see and understand how wonderful God all his creation ❤ You cant seperate God from Science nor can you take the beauty of Science from God 🙏❤⚛️ You cannot seperate the two. They are in endless pursuit of each other just like the function of an atom...ADAM and its units.

  • @nikhilharsha2002
    @nikhilharsha20023 жыл бұрын

    you are god

  • @abhineetagarwal4550
    @abhineetagarwal45503 жыл бұрын

    Thanks KZread, for suggesting this. Good going, Dr Weiss.

  • @sifiso5055
    @sifiso50552 жыл бұрын

    Amazing!