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AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. (www.quantamagazine.org)

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There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin gravitational wave detectors (one in Hanford, Washington, and the other in Livingston, Louisiana), laser beams bounce back and forth down the four-kilometer arms of a giant L. When a gravitational wave passes through, the length of one arm changes relative to the other…

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