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Gravity waves attract theories and experiments

JUN 01, 1972

The recent announcement in the popular press that an Israeli group had graound gravitational waves coming from the pulsar is just the tip of the gravitational iceberg. Since Joseph Weber’s report in 1969 that he had observed gravitational waves at 1661 Hz, more and more experimenters have been peparing their own experiments to observe the waves. And theorists have been busy trying to explain what sort of source will produce gravitational waves.

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