Seeing Gravitational Waves With Atomic Clocks - Forbes
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Now that gravitational waves have been observed, the race is on to design better and more sensitive gravitational telescopes. The LIGO telescope measures gravitational waves by precisely measuring the distance between reflectors. As gravitational waves pass through LIGO the distance changes very slightly. One way to improve over LIGO is to create a more sensitive telescope in space following similar designs, such as the proposed eLISA mission. But there are other ideas that are also worth considering, such as designs using atomic clocks.
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