While looking out for a gravitational wave signal, scientists at GEO600 noticed something bizarre.
在寻找重力波信号的过程中,GEO600的科学家们发现了一些奇异现象。
We need to boost the resolution of a gravitational wave detector-type of kit. Enter the "Holometer."
我们需要提升重力波探测仪的分辨率。
These waves are what those current and planned gravitational wave detectors are designed to look for.
现有的和待造的引力波探测器就是为它们准备的。
Should GEO600 detect a phase change, it could be indicative of a slight change in distance, thus the passage of a gravitational wave.
如果GEO600探测到位移,那就说明发生了距离的微变,而这很可能是重力波的通过引起的。
Then there are plans to examine the gravitational wave background, which would show what the universe looked like a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.
接下来的计划是检查引力波背景,这可以显示大爆炸后瞬间宇宙的样子。
Why is it that only they can create a gravitational wave?
只有他们能产生引力波吗?
The size of the vibrations depends on the strength of the gravitational wave.
振动的幅度依赖于引力波的强度。
The strength of the gravitational wave determines how much an object will change in shape.
引力波的强度决定了物体形变的程度。
In 2000, the interferometric gravitational wave detectors began their runs to accumulate data.
2000年激光干涉仪引力波探测器已开始收集数据。
A new interpretation for the energy exchanges of the matter system is given when there exists the gravitational wave.
对物质体系在发射和接收引力波时的能量转换作了新解释。
Taken the Earth as material of antenna for receiving gravitational wave, the Earth behaves as a low-frequency gravitational detector.
将地球作接收引力波的天线物质,地球就成为了工作在低频段的引力波探测器。
At present, the observation of PSR1913+16 is the only available proof of gravitational wave, even though merely an indirect evidence it is.
目前为止,对PSR1913+16致密双星辐射阻尼效应的观测,仍然是引力波存在性的唯一间接证据。
The detection of gravitational wave is considered the most effective, most rigorous and most stirring test to the general theory of relativity.
这一预言的证实,将是对广义相对论最有效、最严格和最激动人心的检验。
If GEO600 really has discovered holographic noise from quantum convulsions of space-time, then it presents a double-edged sword for gravitational wave researchers.
如果GEO600真的发现了时空量子震动导致的全息噪音,这对引力波研究人员来说是把双刃剑。
Of the five gravitational wave detectors around the world, Hogan realised that the Anglo-German GEO600 experiment ought to be the most sensitive to what he had in mind.
在全世界的五个引力波探测器中,霍根认为英德合作的GEO600实验应该最能探测出他想要的。
The space-time ripples cause the distance measured by a light beam to change as the gravitational wave passes by, and the amount of light falling on the photodetector to vary.
时空涟漪使得用光束测量的距离像引力波通过那样变化,同时使得落在光电探测器上的光量发生变化。
Gravitational wave is one of the important deductions of General Relativity.
引力波是广义相对论的重要推论之一。
Gravitational wave detectors are incredibly sensitive to the tiniest change in distance.
重力波探测器对距离上极微小的变化都非常敏感。
Gravitational wave emission should shrink the orbit at precisely the rate that's observed, so it's a stunning confirmation of Einstein's theory.
由于发射引力波导致的轨道收缩和我们的观测结果相当一致,因此这是爱因斯坦理论的一个相当强有力的证据。
Gravitational wave emission should shrink the orbit at precisely the rate that's observed, so it's a stunning confirmation of Einstein's theory.
由于发射引力波导致的轨道收缩和我们的观测结果相当一致,因此这是爱因斯坦理论的一个相当强有力的证据。
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