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The 100 year journey to prove Einstein was right

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Albert Einstein is LIGO scientist Dr Ed Daw‘s hero - but why? The University of Sheffield physicist talks gravitational waves, the 100 year journey to prove their existence and the role one of the most important unpublished physics publications in history played in their discovery. Find out more about how we’re working with over 80 universities to prove #EinsteinWasRight - https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/physics

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