Feedback on the recent detection of gravitational waves

Séminaire IPAG de Gilles Henri (IPAG), lundi 15 février 2016 à 11h00, IPAG seminar room

Gravitationnal waves have been directly detected for the first time. The two major impacts of this discovery are that 1) the last prediction of Einstein’s General Relativity theory is observed 2) a new messenger is now available to probe the Cosmos. We will review the basics of gravitationnal waves, the observations of the LIGO/VIRGO experiments and explore the consequences of these new findings.