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Michael J. Williams
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Gravitational-wave astrophysicist

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To accompany all those BlueSky science/academia #starterpacks, let’s share introductions to the literature of our fields

Gravitational-wave papers (created with observablehq.com/@guillaume-l...)

When the intro starts "We have opened a new window" you know you can skip a couple of paragraphs
Most scientific papers in xkcd comic style, with titles: We did. We detected gravitational waves! 2000 people worked for 3 years on this and you're just going to read Section D5 and look at plots We calculated these pN equations so you don't have to Binaries stars: Even more complicated We know you're tired of citing Abbott et al. Here's an Abac et al This will be great if we build it in 2050 We thought of a new way Einstein could be wrong. The data say he isn't. Yet Upper limits are neat: We looked really hard and still haven't found anything We hid the quantum uncertainty down the back of the sofa and improved detector performance Something exploded and we all saw it! Isn't multi messenger astronomy fun (paper 1 of 49) Some thoughts on what even is a black hole really? Glitches: caused by dark magic?
November 19, 2024 at 10:16 AM
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I am delighted that we our hosting the joint GR & Amaldi meetings in Glasgow in July 2025

Abstract registration is now open iop.eventsair.com/gr24-amaldi1...

The conference will cover gravitation, gravitational-wave and multimessenger astronomy, cosmology and relativistic astrophysics, and more!
Submission - 24th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation & 16th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves - SEC
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November 8, 2024 at 5:12 PM