These questions originally appeared on Quora - the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answers by Peter Graham, Stanford Physics Professor and Gravitational Wave Researcher, on Quora. Q: How important is the discovery of Gravitational Waves? A: Extremely important! This is surely one of the most important discoveries in physics in the past several decades. It is not even so much the confirmation of the gravitational waves themselves, we were very confident that they existed, it is that we now have the ability to observe the universe using this entirely new spectrum. Everything we currently know about astrophysics and cosmology...
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