Welcome Back Kath.
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12 Aug 2006 0:33:54 UTC
Topic 13404
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Quote:Thanks Mike.
I'm excited 'cause I have a job interview on Monday for a research associate position at Case Western Reserve University in their peds department.
'Case Western Reserve' - sounds like a good wine vintage! :-)
Seriously where is that? What will you do?
Cheers, Mike.
Case Western has an important place in the history of physics and is directly relevant to LIGO. The Michelson-Morely experiment was carried out at Case Western. It was the experiment that demonstrated that the speed of light is constant, independent of the motion of the emitter or observer. This is the fundamental basis of Einstein's special theory of relativity, which eventually became the general theory of relativity, which is our modern theory of gravity. And LIGO uses a interferometer (as originally used by Michelson and Morley) to sense gravity waves.
Cheers,
Bruce