Brace yourselves for gravitational waves

[Excited Penguin]

I just couldn't stop smiling while watching this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoOPEPVYAnU


Here's also an article I just found that I thought put things in perspective really well.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithab...490e954b15

And what we’ve seen, for the first time, is not just one of the greatest predictions of Einstein’s General Relativity, although we did just verify that. And it isn’t just that we took our first step into the world of gravitational wave astronomy, although LIGO will doubtlessly start seeing more of these signals over the coming years; this is as exciting for astronomy as Galileo’s invention of the telescope, as we’re seeing the Universe in a new way for the first time. But the biggest news of all is that we’ve just detected two merging black holes for the first time, tested their physics, found a tremendous agreement with Einstein, and seen evidence that this happens over a billion light years away across the Universe.