You know the Einstein waves can be thought of as a distortion of space and time. But the way we see it, we see it as a distortion of space. And space is enormously stiff. You can't squish it; you can't change its dimensions so easily.
— Rainer Weiss
My father was a dictator in the true German sense. He suppressed my mother.
My parents were singularly uninterested in me. My father was too self-centered and too busy with his own practice to pay a lot of attention to me, and my mother was probably deflected more by my sister.
I thought that there must be an easier way to explain how a gravitational wave interacts with matter: If one just looked at the most primitive thing of all, 3D floating masses out in space, and look at how the space between them changed because of the gravitational wave coming between them.
I wasn't unpopular. I didn't have any trouble getting girls.
The whole world tried to reproduce the Weber experiments.
People say, 'I failed out of college! My life is over!' Well, it's not over. It depends on what you do with it.
