Lisa Mission
Einstein
Gravitational Waves
Big Bang
origins of Earth

LISA -
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SOT Danzmann As far...of time.
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We have the dream....gravitational waves
Professor Danzemann at the Max Planck Institute in Hanover is in no doubt as to the importance of Einstein's discovery of gravitational waves.
SOT Danzemann Gravitational waves...dark side of the universe.
Nothing in the universe can escape the law of gravity.
An event such as the Big Bang would create gravitational waves but our earth bound technology such as GEO in Germany with its laser rays is sensitive only too high frequencies and not the low frequencies emitted by the waves.
Professor Danzemann says there is one solution.
SOT Danzemann
If you want to listen to the high pitch...in Space.
Lisa Mission The European Space Agency and NASA are making sure that will soon have this giant listening device in Space. Code-named LISA, the mission will be launched in 2013.
A giant antenna some 5 million kilometers away. Three satellites , each at th