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The year 2016 saw a most dramatic scientific event in the month of February with the announcement of the observation of gravitational waves by the Advanced LIGO collaboration. This complex experiment uses as its principles, laser inteferometry with two constituent ultra-quiet laboratories separated by thousands of kilometres.
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