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| | CSU Newsline - California State University, Dominguez Hills, faculty members aim to be able to listen to the echoes of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Imagine listening to the resounding echoes of the birth of the universe, the earliest moans of the planets, the yawning of the sky, the cries of newborn stars. |
 | | Four professors at California State University, Dominguez Hills - Kenneth Ganezer, Sam Wiley, and William Keig, all of physics, and George Jennings, mathematics - are part of an international research team of scientists that is aiming to do just that: Detect gravitation waves in space. |
 | | It would mean proving a maxim of Einstein's general theory of relativity, which postulates that the distance between any two points contract and expand as gravitational waves pass. |
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