Jess McIver's guest appearances

Jess McIver

Surely You're Joking

360 with Katie Woolf

Blue Dot

Talk of Today

Alan Alda

Paul Zaloom

Kevin Kelly

Rube Goldberg

Wayne Federman

Maz Jobrani

Andy Weir

Sean Carroll

Steve Hofstetter

Bill Nye

Matthew Broussard

Amir K

Rick Strassman

Nora Bateson

Michael Garfield

OwlTail

Matt Watson

1280: Katie speaks to Jess McIver and Matt Watson about a new Vocational Education and Training Program at Don Dale 

On Aug. 17, 2017, a wave of signals reached earth from 100 million miles away of two neutron stars violently colliding. Dr. Jess McIver (sounds just like "MacGyver") was behind the team that published the news to the world. She also helped remove all the "glitches" that might have looked like a fake signal. What made this so spectacular, was that this was first time such an event was detected from gravitational waves, and then shortly after detected from light all the way from gamma rays down to radio frequency.

Jess McIver and the finally not a glitch.

We now have a new way of observing the universe. Over a century ago, Einstein’s seminal work on the theory of general relativity predicted the existence of gravitational waves which are ripples within the very fabric of the universe itself.   In February of 2016, the existence of gravitational waves was confirmed by measurements made by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.   In this episode, I chat with Dr Jess McIver postdoctoral scholar in experimental physics at California Institute of Technology about the basics of general relativity, what gravitational waves actually are, how they’re created, and how did we measure them. Support this podcastSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations

We now have a new way of observing the universe. Over a century ago, Einstein’s seminal work on the theory of general relativity predicted the existence of gravitational waves which are ripples within the very fabric of the universe itself.   In February of 2016, the existence of gravitational waves was confirmed by measurements made by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.   In this episode, I chat with Dr Jess McIver postdoctoral scholar in experimental physics at California Institute of Technology about the basics of general relativity, what gravitational waves actually are, how they’re created, and how did we measure them. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Support this podcast</a><br/><br/>Support this podcast at — <a href="https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

Gravitational Waves with Dr Jess McIver