Let op! Deze week op donderdag in Z011
Thursday 24 September 2009, 15:30h, at CWI in room Z011
Speaker: Kip Thorne, Lorrentz Leiden
Title:
The warped side of the universe
Abstract:
There is a ‘Warped side’ to our universe, consisting of objects and phenomena that are made solely or largely from warped spacetime. Examples are black holes, singularities (inside black holes and in the big bang), and cosmic strings. Numerical-relativity simulations are revolutionizing our understanding of what COULD exist on our universe’s Warped Side; and gravitational-wave observations (LIGO, LISA, Pulsar Timing Arrays) will soon reveal what phenomena actually DO exist on the Warped Side, and how they behave.
*[Prof. Thorne is the visiting Lorentz professor. This colloquium accompanies a series of three lectures Prof. Thorne will teach on gravitational waves (18 Sept, 25 Sept, 2 Oct). See here for details.