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FIELD TRIP. Members of the Lind-Ritzville High School STEM Club and physics class traveled to the Hanford Nuclear Base to see the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory. Students on the trip were (back row, from left): Samuele Bortolato, Jack Anderson, Wes Hoisington, Hawk Busayok, Emma Aldrich, Camden Smith, Lorria McCauley and Emily Rosen. Front row: Angel Perez, Sharon Anderson, Miguel Saez, Megan Buriak and Cinthia Guizar. -Photo courtesy of Tucker Guiles
On March 30, the LRHS Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Club and physics class traveled off campus to learn about cutting edge research in astrophysics.
Their destination: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) on the Hanford Nuclear Base.
LIGO is an experiment in which collisions between extremely large masses, like two supernovas colliding in the far reaches of the universe, are detected and measured. The measurements are then compared to predictions from Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.
The original idea for LIGO began in 1972 with Rainer Weis...
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