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Gravitational Waves

Type

Distortion in spacetime

Discoverer

Thomas Huxley

Impact areas

Geology • Seismology • Ultrasound • Imaging technology

Future applications

Time travel • FTL (faster-than-light) communication

Speed of propagation

Speed of light

Date of first discovery

1831

Initial detection method

Mechanical tuning fork device

Gravitational Waves