{"id":24,"date":"2017-05-03T13:54:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T13:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-dev.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2017-05-03T13:54:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T13:54:27","slug":"tales-from-the-dark-side-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/spring-2017\/tales-from-the-dark-side-of-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales from the Dark Side of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mathematical Sciences Professor Marc Favata has received a five-year, $400,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation for a research and education project that will explore ways in which gravitational waves offer a new way of looking at the universe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Favata is a member of the international LIGO team that made history in 2015 when it detected, for the first time, gravitational waves from two black holes colliding to form one. The detection \u2014 one of the most significant physics discoveries of the past 50 years \u2014 confirmed a key prediction of Albert Einstein\u2019s 1915 theory of relativity.<\/p>\n<p>The competitive CAREER award supports the research and education initiatives of faculty who are in the early stages of their careers. \u201cI feel very humbled \u2014 and lucky \u2014 to have received this award,\u201d says Favata.<\/p>\n<p>According to Favata, LIGO\u2019s discovery helps answer questions about the environment in which these black holes formed and how they interacted and evolved before becoming black holes. \u201cWe\u2019re also asking, \u2018Was Einstein right?\u2019 It\u2019s possible that as our measurements become more precise, we could find a disagreement with Einstein\u2019s theory,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>University students will be involved in project research and educational components. \u201cThey\u2019ll help improve the \u2018Sounds of Spacetime\u2019 website that we created last year, which lets people \u2018listen\u2019 to the universe by exploring the analogy between gravitational waves and sound,\u201d says Favata. Project funding will also support lectures and outreach efforts to educate a broader public about LIGO\u2019s discoveries.<\/p>\n<p>To listen to the universe, visit the Sounds of Spacetime website at <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/soundsofspacetime.org\" target=\"_blank\">soundsofspacetime.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematical Sciences Professor Marc Favata has received a five-year, $400,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation for a research and education project that will explore ways in which gravitational waves offer a new way of looking at the universe. Favata is a member of the international LIGO team that made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":59,"parent":9,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}