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Blog: Einstein in the News
Software sifts through gravity’s mysteriesSaturday, February 19, 2005 Physicists on Saturday kicked off a campaign to enlist Internet users to help solve one of the biggest unresolved questions surrounding Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity: Do gravitational waves really exist?
Eighty-nine years ago, Einstein predicted that such ripples in space-time should be set off by dramatic cosmic events, such as black hole collisions and stellar explosions. But to date, no one has ever detected the waves. Two sprawling observatories have been set up in the United States and Germany to look for them, but analyzing the data from those efforts requires an enormous amount of computing power.
That's where Einstein @ Home enters the picture.
The screensaver-type program was released to the public on Saturday in conjunction with the American Physical Society's World Year of Physics celebration, marking the centennial of Einstein's initial theories on relativity and quantum physics.
Full story from MSNBC. posted by Einstein A to Z
