{"id":14922,"date":"2017-02-13T18:51:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T18:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/?p=14922"},"modified":"2017-02-13T18:53:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T18:53:06","slug":"almost-a-year-ago-today-we-heard-what-gravitational-waves-sound-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/2017\/02\/13\/almost-a-year-ago-today-we-heard-what-gravitational-waves-sound-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost A Year Ago Today We Heard What Gravitational Waves Sound Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In case you missed it, on Thursday February 11 scientists from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced they had detected gravitational waves for the first time in history. If you don\u2019t follow news about space often then this may not sound like a big deal but let me assure you, it\u2019s a HUGE deal. It\u2019s actually one of the biggest astrophysical discoveries ever.<\/p>\n<p>To make this discovery even more awesome, this proved a theory put forth by Albert Einstein a century ago!<\/p>\n<p>The video below will explain in detail where the gravitational waves came from and how we were able to achieve this discovery using the fascinating technology of LIGO.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theevolvingplanet.com\/gravitational-waves-sound-like\/\">To read more from this article click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"956\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FXlg3cr-q44?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, on Thursday February 11 scientists from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced they had detected gravitational waves for the first time in history. If you don\u2019t follow news about space often then this may&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/2017\/02\/13\/almost-a-year-ago-today-we-heard-what-gravitational-waves-sound-like\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":14923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-science","category-musings","category-world-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14922"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14926,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14922\/revisions\/14926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}