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QUIET team members display circuitry and components developed for the detection of gravity waves: physics graduate students Immanuel Buder and Alison Brizius (front row); Colin Bischoff, physics graduate student; David Moore, undergraduate in physics; Akito Kusaka, postdoctoral fellow in the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics; and Bruce Winstein, the Samuel K. Allison Distinguished Service Professor in Physics (back row, l-r). (Credit:Lloyd DeGrane)
U. CHICAGO (US)—A tiny fraction of a second following the big bang, the universe allegedly experienced remarkable growth, with space expanding faster than the speed of light. A University of Chicago team is hoping to prove the theory by detecting remnants of radiation emitted at that early moment, when gravity waves rippled through the very fabric of space-time itself. Continue…
