World Science Festival

tv show

poster for World Science Festival

24 total episodes

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2 seasons

First Aired June 05, 2016

Overview

The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Their mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.

Gravitational Waves: A New Era of Astronomy Begins poster unavailable

Gravitational Waves: A New Era of Astronomy Begins

Season 1 - Episode 6 - 0h 0m

Air Date

June 05, 2016

Overview

On September 14th, 2015, a ripple in the fabric of space, created by the violent collision of two distant black holes over a billion years ago, washed across the Earth. As it did, two laser-based detectors, 50 years in the making – one in Louisiana and the other in Washington State – momentarily twitched, confirming a century-old prediction by Albert Einstein and marking the opening of a new era in astronomy. Join some of the very scientists responsible for this most anticipated discovery of our age and see how gravitational waves will be used to explore the universe like never before.