Physics Lecture
Recently, I got the amazing opportunity to go to a lecture on "Gravitational Waves" given by Dr. Laura Nuttall. The lecture covered different aspects of physics, such as general relativity, Newton’s law on universal gravitation, space time, and of course what happens when gravitational waves given off by collisions in space pass through an object. Dr. Nuttall is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and has been for eight years; during her time there she has worked with Nobel Peace prize winners Rainer Weiss, Kip S Thorne, and Barry Barish. Impressively, LIGO managed to detect gravitational waves (ripples in space time) that were first predicted by Einstein 100 years ago which earned them a Nobel Peace prize in 2017.