After two decades and more than half a billion dollars, LIGO, the world's largest gravitational-wave observatory, is on the verge of a detection. Maybe.
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Witze, A. Physics: Wave of the future. Nature 511, 278–281 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/511278a
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