Puzzle piece of the universe might be found

- One of the big missing pieces of the universe may be found. Scientists come Thursday with news of so-called gravitational waves. That press conference, simultaneously in the United States and Italy, was announced Monday. The rumors that had found something special, went around for weeks. Physicists from Amsterdam and astronomers from Nijmegen were also in enabling groundbreaking research.

Although we have nothing in everyday life makes of gravitational waves, they are immensely important. When a big shock in the universe, such as the explosion of a star, vibrates the 'backbone' of the universe. The energy is thrown on all sides, similar to the waves after a stone into a pond. These ripples are the gravitational waves. The waves contain information about the source, such as the Big Bang, and thus about the origin of everything. Albert Einstein had a hundred years ago calculated that gravitational waves should exist, but so far they only existed in theory.

The Canadian scientist Clifford Burgess explained last week a corner of the veil on a leaked report. According to him, the waves are discovered after the collision of two black holes. This would have caused a massive shock wave, which was measured by a plurality of special detectors on earth.,, Woohoo! '' Was the conclusion of Burgess.

Gravity waves are the holy grail of science. Earlier, European physicists found the Higgs boson, a tiny particle that is so important that it is also called the God particle. This led a year later to the Nobel Prize in Physics. Dark matter, another fundamental mystery has not been found yet.