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Michael Landry

Michael Landry

Head of the LIGO Hanford Observatory and physicist at Caltech, now also Executive Director of the Cosmic Explorer project.

Sep 13, 2026

7:30
[laughs]
7:30
The only reason they're so small when they get to us is they've been traveling through the universe for a billion years.
7:34
When they first happen, they were very concentrated here, right?
7:37
Yeah.
7:37
And as they start radiating outward, they don't attenuate as they go through matter, but as it goes out, you're now covering a bigger volume.
7:44
The whole wave together would have the same amount of energy-

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