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WHAT WAS SPECIAL ABOUT 2017?

-Angelina Minocha

What made it different? What did we achieve

this year? Your average pessimist would say Here are three scientific developments of 2017

that many terrible things happened this year that have transformed our future:

and they’re not wrong but they simply didn’t

notice the better side of 2017, in other words, 1.Gravitational waves

the scientific developments of 2017. The detection of these waves by Rainer

Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish

This year mankind made several leaps in was a massive leap for astrophysicists

scientific and technological fields through everywhere since Einstein had

remarkable discoveries that quite literally theorized these waves nearly a century

saved lives. ago but no method had been found to

prove them until now. Furthermore,

the information derived from these

waves helps us understand

astronomical events and black hole

collisions (of which we have very

little information) in detail.

Weiss, Thorne and Barish along with
their team of scientists developed the
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-
Wave Observatory (LIGO), which
detects gravitational waves in the form
of distortions in a laser beam by
splitting a laser beam into two arms,
reflecting it in a mirror then
measuring the distortion in time and
size of any one of the beams, which is
caused by the effect of gravitational