{"id":12529,"date":"2016-01-09T22:34:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T22:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acasinhadamatematica.pt\/?p=12529"},"modified":"2022-09-11T22:03:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T21:03:46","slug":"aftershock-the-hunt-for-gravitational-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acasinhadamatematica.pt\/?p=12529","title":{"rendered":"Aftershock: The Hunt for Gravitational Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style><div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/132580395?h=595248d1b6\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In March 2014, a team of astronomers stunned the scientific world when they announced that their <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210308230622\/https:\/\/www.cfa.harvard.edu\/CMB\/bicep2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BICEP2<\/a><span class=\"ml__ellipsis\"><span class=\"ml__hidden\"> telescope at the South Pole had possibly detected a signal of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gravitational_wave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gravitational waves<\/a>\u201d from the early universe. This is the inside story of the hunt for gravitational waves from the beginning of time. How the BICEP2 team came close to making one of the greatest discoveries of the century \u2013 and what happened when it all began to unravel&#8230;<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"r\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b055knk1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b055knk1\">Aftershock: The Hunt for Gravitational Waves<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Explaining gravitational waves<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"video-container\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F9I2Q1HUP7w?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=pt-PT&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2014, a team of astronomers stunned the scientific world when they announced that their BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole had possibly detected a signal of \u201cgravitational waves\u201d from the early universe.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[421,433,200],"series":[],"class_list":["post-12529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ciencia-e-tecnologia","category-video","tag-ciencia","tag-ondas-gravitacionais","tag-video-2"],"views":2052,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.acasinhadamatematica.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/AftershockTheHuntForGravitacionalWaves.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acasinhadamatematica.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acasinhadamatematica.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acasinhadamatematica.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acasinhadamatematica.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acasinhadamatematica.pt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.acasinhadamatematica.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acasinhadamatematica.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acasinhadamatematica.pt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acasinhadamatematica.pt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acasinhadamatematica.pt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12529"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acasinhadamatematica.pt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=12529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}