Interactive Gravitational Wave exhibit at LSU Libraries
<div class="migrated-article">LSU Libraries, in partnership with the Physics & Astronomy Department of LSU, has brought the LIGO (<strong>L</strong>aser <strong>I</strong>nterferometer <strong>G</strong>ravitational-Wave <strong>O</strong>bservatory) exhibit to LSU for the month of April. This exhibit is an Outreach Project of the National Science Foundation and the LSC (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory Scientific Collaboration). It has been touring with great success nationwide for the past couple of years.
<a href="/sites/default/files/featured_images/ligo11.jpgdata-caption=" part of the ligo exhibit in middleton data-title="Part of the LIGO exhibit in Middleton Library">
Now is your chance to learn about gravitational waves, black holes, and precisely what kind of research goes on at the LIGO center in Livingston Parish (</a><a href="https://ligo.caltech.edu/LA">http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu</a>), and its twin in Washington state. This is an interactive exhibit which will give you a chance to:
• manipulate a model space-time fabric
• get a close look at a real interferometer
• learn how to hunt Black Holes.
The exhibit will be on display through April 30, 2012.</div>
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