Einstein@home takes off.(Bulletin)

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Come celebrate physics and help solve one of science's unresolved mysteries. This is the premise behind the Einstein@home project, one of a series of programs being launched in recognition of the World of Physics (WYP) 2005 celebration. The new program aims to finally prove/disprove one of Einstein's long-standing theories about the existence of gravitational waves--ripples in space-time theorized to be caused by violent events such as black hole collisions. To date, this phenomena...

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