Real Physics Talk: David Reitze

Interview with Prof. David H. Reitze, director of the LIGO laboratory. The LIGO sites Hanford and Livingstone, as a result of their joint measurements, announced the first dectection of a gravitational wave event (GW150914) on Feb 11, 2016. Reitze talks about the next goals of the community, theirefforts to exclude the possibility of a "blind injection" and the public perception of science. Videotaped at the GWADW workshop in Elba (Italy), 2016. Alexander Unzicker is a theoretical physicist and science writer ("Bankrupting physics", "The Higgs Fake", "Einstein's Lost Key"). ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_BY8XiVU8Q