The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three US scientists for the detection of gravitational waves. Rainer Weiss, Kipthorn and Barry Barish will share the 9 million crooner, 831,000 pounds. The ripples were predicted by Albert Einstein and are a fun, demental consequence of his general theory of relativity. The winners are members of the Lagovurgal Observatories, which were responsible for the breakthrough. The winners join a prestigious list of 200 and four other physics laureates recognized since 1901. Professor Weiss gets half of the prize money, while Barry and Thoreng will share the other half. Gravitational waves describe the stretching and squeezing of space time that occurs when massive objects accelerate. The warping of space resulting from the merger of two black holes was initially picked up by the US Le Gold Laboratory in 2015 dashed the culmination of a decade long quest. Three more examples have been detected since then.