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Jim Cooney joins Josh and Addie to talk about the first direct detection of the waving of space-time (in other words, gravitational waves).<\/p>\n<p>After listening to our episode <a href=\"http:\/\/walkaboutthegalaxy.libsyn.com\/attack-of-the-gravitational-wave\">here<\/a> you will understand everything, but if you want to read more to kill time (or make time wave), here are some other good sources of information on gravitational waves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/gravitational-waves-discovered-from-colliding-black-holes1\/?WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20160217\">Scientific American article.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2016\/02\/gravitational-waves-einstein-s-ripples-spacetime-spotted-first-time?utm_source=newsfromscience&amp;utm_medium=facebook-text&amp;utm_campaign=LIGO-2358\">Science Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/127255\/gravitational-waves-101\/?utm_content=buffer39a18&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=plus.google.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">Good general explanation of gravitational waves.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back with a Nobel-Prize-winning episode (in that we discuss something that will win a Nobel prize)! 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