Here's a nice video from the BBC of an interview with Stephen Hawking regarding the newest researching confirming the existence of gravitational waves: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-35551144/prof-stephen-hawking-celebrates-gravitational-wave-discovery
For an even better layman-oriented explanation of why gravitational waves matter, see this other BBC video.
I'm just thankful that the Koch brothers (or any other of our ruling oligarchs) don't seem to perceive any aspects of relativity theory to pose the slightest threat to their ability to keep pathologically hoovering up vast hoards of wealth; otherwise they would have seen a need to gin up some dark-money sponsored "research" to cast doubt on Einstein's theories and the many serious studies confirming them.
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Friday, February 12, 2016
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