The Former Director of Exhibits at Catawba Science Center, William Katzman, was recently involved in groundbreaking discoveries about Gravitational Waves, a part of Einstein's

100-year-old General Theory of Relativity.  Katzman, now the

Science Education Program Leader at LIGO, Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, in Louisiana, is responsible for translating the language of Physics and Astronomy into terms that are more easily understood.  Most recently, he was involved in describing black holes and their gravitational waves as predicted by Einstein.

He wrote this article to share with us:

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