"Ripples in Spacetime One Hundred Years after Einstein: LIGO, Gravitational Waves and the Long Road from Prediction to Observation Gravitational waves do exist, as has been announced today with great joy by the scientists of the LIGO collaboration, after more than two decades of intensive work. Collaborative work on the historiography of 20th century physics by the Einstein Papers Project at Caltech, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science carried out over many years has recently shown that the prediction of gravitational waves emerged almost exactly 100 years ago, in mid-February 1916, from an exchange of letters between Albert Einstein and the astronomer Karl Schwarzschild." http://www.einstein.caltech.edu/news/EPP-website-announcement-LIGO.pdf http://www.hs.uni-hamburg.de/DE/GNT/events/pdf/steinicke05.pdf
I laughed yesterday when I thought I heard what's his name say on NBC Nightly News----and I am still pretty sure he actually did say-----"After centuries of research they have finally proved one of Einstein's..." I guess researchers had to go back in time a few centuries to start the project ;-)
