Albert Einstein was pretty bright, everyone knows that. What’s amazing about the dude is that over 100 years after he published his general theory on relativity, modern space scientists were just able to announce today they’d discovered something recently that good ole Al prophecized over a century ago – gravitational waves.
I’m clearly no rocket scientist, just a humble caveman DJ. My curiosity about astronomy prompted me to take a class and lab at Wayne State University in Detroit during my attempt at becoming a journalist. I loved the class, aced it in fact, so I probably have a bit above average understanding of the universe. Still, I can’t do this discovery justice.
Best I can understand, gravitational waves are like ripples in space-time. Two crazy laser-wave observatories, one in Louisiana and one in Washington, were able to detect this recently. The scientists say the wave was created by two black holes colliding or merging in space. The gravitational wave they detected was spawned from an event that, they estimate, took place around 1.3 billion years ago!
HERE is how a science website / magazine described it.
While Einstein thought that the space-time continuum could be bent or shifted – think, traveling back or forward in time! – he never actually thought that gravitational waves would be discovered. I’m beginning to believe the Ancient Aliens theory that Einstein was not entirely human.
Doc Watson
