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In 2017, physicists Kip Thorne, Barry Barish and Rainer Weiss were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for proving the existence of gravitational waves – the existence of which were originally theorised by Albert Einstein in 1916.
‘Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space-time. Anytime we move we create a gravitational wave but they’re so completely and utterly minute and undetectable that you wouldn’t feel you and me moving, putting our imprint on the universe and it carrying on forever,’ said poet Alicia Sometimes.
