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