31: LIGO Gets An Upgrade

Help us make Syzygy even better! Tell your friends and give us a review (https://www.imore.com/how-rate-or-review-podcast-your-iphone-or-ipad) , or show your support on Patreon: patreon.com/syzygypod (https://patreon.com/syzygypod) Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart (http://kipstewart.com) and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden (http://www.york.ac.uk/physics/people/brunsden/) from the Department of Physics at the University of York. On the web: syzygy.fm (http://syzygy.fm/) | Twitter: @syzygypod (https://twitter.com/SyzygyPod) Things we talk about in this episode: LIGO (https://www.ligo.caltech.edu) Time for an upgrade (https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20190214) WIRED story about the upgrade (https://www.wired.com/story/get-ready-for-gravitational-waves-all-day-every-day/) Gravitational waves (https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/what-are-gravitational-waves-ligo-astronomy-science/) Methods of detecting gravitational waves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational-wave_observatory) Veritasium video on wave interference (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuv6hY6zsd0) Interferometer animation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA1qG7Fjc2A) Black hole merger in 2015 (https://physicsworld.com/a/ligo-detects-first-ever-gravitational-waves-from-two-merging-black-holes/) Neutron star merger in 2017 (https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/merging-neutron-stars-generate-gravitational-waves-and-celestial-light-show) Cosmic inflation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_llA2q1rlSg) Theories Of Everything (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-elusive-thoery-of-everything/) LISA — LIGO, but bigger, and in space! (http://sci.esa.int/lisa/)