Ubuntu Used to Detect Gravitational Waves at LIGO Experiment
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Ligo (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) may not get the same kind of attention in the media as other physics experiments, but it should. It's designed to detect gravitational waves, and it looks like the scientists are also using Linux (Ubuntu) to do that.
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Gravitational waves were predicted by Albert Einstein back in 1916, and they should exist. This is what Einstein's theory of general relativity tells us. The problem is that, even if the theory of general relativity has been proven, the gravity waves have yet to be discovered, although the scientists are confident that it's going to happen soon enough. Full Story |
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