Using Open Source to Build a Gravitational Wave Observatory - Elizabeth Garbee
Channel: Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia
Date: 20/01/2012

With the help of the Universe's best celestial clocks (millisecond pulsars!) and some specialized open source software, radio astronomers are searching for the almost-imperceptible stretching of the fabric of space by gravitational waves — predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity but not yet detected directly.