大约50年前,雷纳·韦斯(Rainer Weiss)就想到了探测引力波的办法。引力波是爱因斯坦广义相对论引力理论中所预测的无限小的时空涟漪。去年9月,关于引力波的预测终于梦想成真,1 000名物理学家通过激光干涉引力波天文台(LIGO)分别位于路易斯安那州利文斯顿和华盛顿州汉福德的两个巨大的探测器,终于在2015年9月检测到了引力波:十亿光年外两个巨大黑洞碰撞时产生的脉冲波辐射。周围同事们猜测,麻省理工学院(MIT)物理学家 About 50 years ago, Rainer Weiss came up with the idea of ​​detecting gravitational waves. Gravitational waves are infinite small spatiotemporal ripples predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Last September, the prediction of gravitational waves finally came true. One thousand physicists passed two huge detectors of LIGO at Livingston, Louisiana and Hanford, Washington, respectively, Finally, gravitational waves were finally detected in September 2015: pulsed wave radiation from the collision of two giant black holes outside the billions of light years. Surrounding colleagues speculated that the MIT physicist