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Gravity


It's been 80 years since Albert Einstein published the General Theory of Relativity, but how much do we really know about gravity? Join Ira Flatow in this hour of Science Friday for a discussion about what we know, and what we can learn from some exciting new experiments.


Guests:
Joseph Taylor
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ

Barry Barish
Lind Professor of Physics
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA

Francis Everitt
Professor
Hanson Experimental Physics Laboratory
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

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