Gravitational Waves/ Spiral Patterns

I am happy to join the excitement of the German/UK team of scientists in their recent launching of a GEO 600 gravitational wave detector.

I’ve been interested in Astronomy and the Space Exploration for a long time, since childhood in fact. I loved watching the beauty of the night sky, and as a student bewildered by the forces and movements of the constellation of stars in the universe.

The new instrument called an interferometer will enable the scientists to prove the existence of gravitational waves as predicted by Einstein some ninety years ago in his general theory of relativity by measuring the ripples of waves when two stars, or two black holes collide. We will also gain more knowledge about the Big Bang theory on how the universe began.

As a painter, I am thrilled to see the beautiful patterns of the digital images produced by the instrument — the thin looking string circling one on top of the other in a layer of spiral forms. The image looks quite like a ripple of waves made on water when a stone is thrown into it.

It’s the same pattern that I found when I painted spirals on seashells.

It’s exciting that I can also paint the spiral patterns of the gravitational waves.

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