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Carrie Nugent
79: LIGO’s high quality (factor) fibers with Dr. Robertson
18 minutes Posted Jan 8, 2017 at 5:00 pm.
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Dr. Norna Robertson shares a drink from her home country and talks about a specific part of LIGO. She explains that LIGO’s eighty-pound mirrors are suspended by four, incredibly thin, silica fibers that were developed just for this project.