{"id":10842,"date":"2016-05-01T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibnusina.utm.my\/?p=10842"},"modified":"2020-02-26T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T02:17:07","slug":"einsteins-gravitational-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/isi-sir\/blog\/2016\/05\/01\/einsteins-gravitational-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Einstein\u2019s gravitational waves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-very-light-gray-background-color\"><strong>Prof. Dr. Y.T. Chen (1997 &#8211; 2003)<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">On February 11, 2016, a group of scientists named LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) announced that they had detected gravitational waves that have been predicted by Einstein 100 years ago. I foresee this discovery will lead to a Nobel prize in 2016! Coincidentally, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) used to have a Gravitational Wave Laboratory as the backbone of Ibnu Sina Institute for Fundamental Science Studies, UTM. On June 14, 1997, UTM has received detector to detect gravitational waves, that is, a 100-m DL laser interferometer (Tenko-100), which was awarded as a grant by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences (ISAS), Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2020\/02\/einstein-lab-1024x556.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10084\" width=\"768\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/isi-sir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2020\/02\/einstein-lab-1024x556.png 1024w, https:\/\/research.utm.my\/isi-sir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2020\/02\/einstein-lab-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/research.utm.my\/isi-sir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2020\/02\/einstein-lab-768x417.png 768w, https:\/\/research.utm.my\/isi-sir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2020\/02\/einstein-lab.png 1101w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Einstein Gravitational-Wave Laboratory at UTM<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Y.T. Chen, A.D Karsono, R.A. Ghani, N. Ibrahim, A.Z. Idrus, B. Sanugi, B.H. Lim, K.K. Chong, C.S. Lim, A. Nani, N. Kawashima, M. Othman, S.P. Chia, &#8220;Upgrade of the 100 M Laser Interferometer TENKO-100 in Malaysia as a Test-Bed for Advanced Technology Development&#8221;, Proceedings of the MGIX MM Meeting, The University of Rome \u2018La Sapienza\u2019, 2 \u2013 8 July 2000. DOI:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1142\/9789812777386_0409\">10.1142\/9789812777386_0409<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>N. Kawashima, R. Takahashi, K.K. Chong, B. H. Lim, Y.T. Chen, \u201cSeismic Activity Measurement of 100m Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Antenna Development Site in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia\u201d, Journal of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Kinki University, 36 (2000) 27-30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Y. T. Chen, N. Kawashima, M. Othman, S.P. Chia, M. Karim, B. Sanugi, B. H. Lim, K.K. Chong, \u201cGravitational Wave Detection in the Laboratory\u201d, Jurnal Fizik Malaysia, 19 (1998) 69-82.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Prof. Dr. Y.T. Chen (1997 &#8211; 2003) On February 11, 2016, a group of scientists named LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) announced that they had detected gravitational waves that have been predicted by Einstein 100 years ago. I foresee this discovery will lead to a Nobel prize in 2016! Coincidentally, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11421,"featured_media":10853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/isi-sir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/isi-sir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/isi-sir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/isi-sir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/isi-sir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/isi-sir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/isi-sir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/isi-sir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/isi-sir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/isi-sir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}