{"id":1932,"date":"2016-02-25T21:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T21:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/?p=1932"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:57:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:57:45","slug":"pythagorean-astronomy-the-voice-of-einstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/2016\/02\/25\/pythagorean-astronomy-the-voice-of-einstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Pythagorean Astronomy: the Voice of Einstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you&#8217;ve been under a bush for the past month, you can&#8217;t have missed what could be described the news of the Century &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ligo.org\/detection\">the first direct detection of gravitational waves<\/a>. This month, I speak to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zemogle\">Edward Gomez<\/a> about what this discovery means, and catch up with some of the gravitational physicists here in Cardiff, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cosmoblogy\">Andrew Williamson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.cardiff.ac.uk\/contactsandpeople\/?page=full&amp;id=618\">Frank Ohme<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.cardiff.ac.uk\/contactsandpeople\/?page=full&amp;id=746\">Lionel London<\/a>. They tell me quite how sensitive the LIGO instruments are, and how gravitational waves are the voice of Einstein.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1932-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/astrog80.astro.cf.ac.uk\/pythagoras-trousers\/mp3\/Feb2016_full_PHYSX.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/astrog80.astro.cf.ac.uk\/pythagoras-trousers\/mp3\/Feb2016_full_PHYSX.mp3\">http:\/\/astrog80.astro.cf.ac.uk\/pythagoras-trousers\/mp3\/Feb2016_full_PHYSX.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Originally broadcast on 25th February\u00a02016 as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhysphillips.co.uk\/pythagoras-trousers\/\">Pythagoras&#8217; Trousers<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiocardiff.org\/\">Radio Cardiff<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you&#8217;ve been under a bush for the past month, you can&#8217;t have missed what could be described the news of the Century &#8211; the first direct detection of gravitational waves. This month, I speak to Edward Gomez about what this discovery means, and catch up with some of the gravitational physicists here in Cardiff,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,30,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-2","category-media","category-pythagorean-astronomy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hmOz-va","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1933,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions\/1933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}