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The incredible story of the funder Rich Isaacson who convinced the @NSF to fund @LIGO: https://www.npr.org/2019/05/19/723326933/billion-dollar-gamble-how-a-singular-hero-helped-start-a-new-field-in-physics?fbclid=IwAR28fazRNhzzT5ijMINwzZkNqlP6fEfBlI4OLyY-eesrUyOfbZfF7-P4qUc …pic.twitter.com/KC4Kx5XatP
Most people don't understand just how insanely ambitious and courageous LIGO was (and is). They needed a strain sensitivity of 1 part in 10 to the 22. That's like measuring the distance to the sun to an accuracy better than one atom in diameter. Utterly ludicrous.
I heard Kip Thorne give a talk stating this in 1998. I simply laughed and thought it was never, ever going to happen. But they did it. It's plausibly the most extraordinary single thing ever done by humans. And in considerable part because of some squiggles on paper.
Hats very much off to Isaacson for supporting it through three decades!
Michael, have you read Blake Hole Blues? https://www.amazon.com/Black-Blues-Other-Songs-Outer/dp/030794848X?ie=UTF8&tag=thstsst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957 … A very interesting and fun book. Probably @patrickc will like it as well.
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