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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

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Things we talk about in this episode:

LIGO

Time for an upgrade

WIRED story about the upgrade

Gravitational waves

Methods of detecting gravitational waves

Veritasium video on wave interference

Interferometer animation

Black hole merger in 2015

Neutron star merger in 2017

Cosmic inflation

Theories Of Everything

LISA — LIGO, but bigger, and in space!