
The Chinese Effort in Gravitational Wave Detection: The Bid for Leadership
Gravitational waves, as “ripples” of the space-time, were predicted by Einstein more than a century ago. As a new way of observing the universe, the detection of gravitational waves may unveil a lot of mysteries, such as the nature of spacetime and the properties of black holes. In 2003, when young Caltech Ph.D. Chen Yanbei went back to China to give a talk on gravitational … Continue reading The Chinese Effort in Gravitational Wave Detection: The Bid for Leadership