You know the Einstein waves can be thought of as a distortion of space and time. But the way we see it, we see it as a distortion of space. And space is enormously stiff. You can’t squish it; you can’t change its dimensions so easily. Rainer Weiss Read Quote
There was a person who thought I was OK. I wasn’t a complete dope. I got some confidence out of that. Rainer Weiss Read Quote
One of the things I sort of dreamt about awhile ago is that if Einstein were still alive, it would be absolutely wonderful to go to him and tell him about the discovery, and he would have been very pleased, I’m sure of that. Rainer Weiss Read Quote
The students on my course were fascinated by the idea that gravitational waves might exist. I didn’t know much about them at all, and for the life of me, I could not understand how a bar interacts with a gravitational wave. Rainer Weiss Read Quote
I prefer really often to talk to high school students, mostly because I think they’re the future for us. Rainer Weiss Read Quote
Einstein had looked at the numbers and dimensions that went into his equations for gravitational waves and said, essentially, ‘This is so tiny that it will never have any influence on anything, and nobody can measure it.’ And when you think about the times and the technology in 1916, he was probably right. Rainer Weiss Read Quote
People say, ‘I failed out of college! My life is over!’ Well, it’s not over. It depends on what you do with it. Rainer Weiss Read Quote
