Cleo Abram
January 20, 2026 · 4 min read
The Craziest Experiment Humans Have Ever Built
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Key Takeaways
- 1Right here, out in the middle of the desert, miles from any city, are huge concrete tubes that are part of a giant machine running the most precise...
- 2For all of human history, everything we know about the cosmos has come from waves of light and particles that happen to come our way.
- 3The story begins with Albert Einstein's prediction from 75 years before LIGO was built.
- 4But here's the mind-bending part: these waves stretch and squeeze everything we know - you, me, the space between us, all of reality - and we never...
- 5Most physicists believed that even if Einstein were right, it would be impossible to prove.
Overview
Right here, out in the middle of the desert, miles from any city, are huge concrete tubes that are part of a giant machine running the most precise experiment humans have ever built. This experiment is happening inside two tubes, each 4 kilometers long, housing what scientists call the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, or simply LIGO.
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