Topic: Pulsar watchers race for gravity waves

[sam]

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100113/full/463147a.html?s=news_rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+news%2Frss%2Fmost_recent+(NatureNews+-+Most+recent+articles)

Aided by the Universe's best celestial clocks, radio astronomers are embarking on a search for the almost-imperceptible stretching of the fabric of space by gravitational waves — predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity but not yet detected directly. The approach is competing with more elaborate and expensive approaches to gravitational wave detection.

[Clive]

We are having a talk on this very subject next month.   

[sam]

who by?

[Clive]

Dr Stephen Fairhurst of Cardiff University.  It will be his first visit. 

[sam]

hope it goes well!

[Clive]

Hope it doesn't snow!