Will ET land in our backyard?

14 September 2015 is one of those rare pivotal moments in science. On that day, scientists detected a gravitational wave for the first time, some 100 years after Einstein predicted its existence on theoretical grounds.

Now that we know we can measure these ripples in space(time), we want to take the next step: unveil the dark universe using a next generation detector, the Einstein telescope. Scientists, policy makers and entrepreneurs from The Netherlands, Germany and Belgium join forces to build this gravitational wave detector in the area around the three-country point.

Hans Plets, director EMR ET Project Office at Einstein Telescope

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