Seminário

Gravitational waves from the Big Bang

Sala 1.4.14, FCUL, Lisboa

Mark Hindmarsh
University of Sussex, UK

Abstract: The recent detection of gravitational waves by LIGO confirms a 100-year-old prediction of the general theory of relativity.  I outline the significance of the discovery, and explain how the future space-based gravitational wave experiment LISA will probe the first few picoseconds of the Big Bang, when the Higgs field “turned on".

14h00
Departamento de Física