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The great detector: a visit to LIGO Livingston

16 Oct 2017 Tushna Commissariat

Tushna Commissariat travels to the forests of Louisiana to visit the LIGO Livingston gravitational-wave observatory, where one of the most sensational discoveries of recent times was made

An arm of the LIGO detector in Livingston
(Courtesy: Tushna Commissariat)
The road to LIGO Livingston is paved with orange traffic cones. I’m in a taxi with my Physics Worl

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