Click above to listen to Part 1 of Too Big To Prove, featuring Janna Levin, physicist and astronomer at Barnard College at Columbia University, and the author of the story of LIGO, “Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space,” discussing the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics being awarded for the discovery of gravitational waves.

Too Big to Prove:
Part 1: Janna Levin / Gravitational Waves
Part 2: Roland Pease / Nobel Prize
Part 3: David Gross / String Theory

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