Last night, I was reading A Brief Welcome to the Universe and in one of the final chapters it mentioned that gravitational waves “have proved elusive to detect”. I thought they had been detected, so I looked up when and it’s exactly 10 years ago today. I thought that was a weird enough coincidence to justify a thread.
Cool. I want to tour a LIGO site. The closest one to me (SFBA CA USA) is an 800 mile drive north to Washington state. I’ve plotted them on my map. Below I include their DD coordinates.
LIGO = Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
△ LIGO Hanford WA ▲ 46.455, -119.407
➜ https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/WA ■
△ LIGO Livingston LA ▲ 30.563, -90.774
➜ https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/LA ■
△ LIGO KAGRA JPN ▲ 36.435, 137.277
△ LIGO Virgo ITA ▲ 43.631, 10.505