LIGO movie!!

[nibot]

The NSF has sponsored the production of a 20-minute video about LIGO (the project I am working on).

The results are hilarious! Watch it here: http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/einstein.ram

Comments

[nibot.livejournal.com]

yeah, they are both up and running.

you can see some pictures, etc: http://nibot.livejournal.com/tag/ligo (in reverse chronological order)

The facilities have been there for a number of years now. What they mean by "up and running" is that most of the bugs have been worked out, so that we're now operating at a sensitivity where it is conceivable that we would detect gravitational waves. Now we're running in "science mode" (looking for gravity waves) rather than engineering mode/"commissioning" (getting everything working properly, identifying noise sources, etc).

thanks for the redirect

[kphiker.livejournal.com]

very interesting ligo posts! and fun to see what you look like sans beard...

you have had so many adventures (no tent-sleeping at cern, heh) and it's neat to read about them (and todd matthews -- compelling writer) and see the pix. there's just so much out there ordinary people don't know about.

re ligo -- is curvature of the earth an issue at 4 kilometers?

Re: thanks for the redirect

[nibot.livejournal.com]

hm, I replied, but my reply got misfiled: http://nibot.livejournal.com/476307.html?thread=1789331#t1789331