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Gravitational Waves Work Like This Drill on Spandex

Steve Mould, 11 min, 1.2M views, Aug 9, 2016

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I take a classic demonstration of warping spacetime and figure out how to demonstrate gravitational waves with the addition of some wheels and a drill. Discussion video about LIGO and gravitational waves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfobw_PSSE Tom Scott's video about frame rate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzP8FFKpwQ0 Visit my blog here: http://stevemould.com Follow me on twitter here: http://twitter.com/moulds Buy nerdy maths things here: http://mathsgear.co.uk