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Post by account_disabled on Aug 30, 2023 11:01:02 GMT
It hadn’t really sunk in for me yet—there was too much going on. We held a colloquium at our department the week after the press conference and had a party afterward. Everyone was hugging, and some of my students were in tears. They’ve grown with me. Some of them have become professors in the department, and they were saying what a great achievement, and so on. It’s then that I really realized. That was a moment of joy. This discovery has helped us verify many things that we predicted Switzerland Mobile Number List in the collaboration. It used a method on which I wrote a paper in 1991—24 years ago—so that was fantastic for me personally. But we also made predictions in 1996 about how general relativity could be tested that played out in this observation. Seeing work pay off over such a long period has been immensely satisfying for many people—not just me. Isi: We knew that this discovery was going to be picked up by the press, but for me at least, the magnitude of the reception and the huge interest were extremely positively overwhelming. What’s it been like for you to see the field suddenly become “mainstream?” Sathyaprakash: The press coverage is actually something that completely baffles me as well. Before the discovery, when I gave talks at astronomical societies, they used to ask, “When are you going to discover something? How are you going to tell us?
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