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Extreme numbers: the unimaginably large and small pop up in recent experiments

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imageIt's a lot of grains of sand, but numbers can get a whole lot bigger....Tony Hisgett, CC BY

The physics world erupted in celebration this month with the confirmed discovery of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) group. Predicted by Einstein a century ago, the discovery verifies his description of...

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