The Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced from his radio programme that India has decided to establish a Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) where gravitational waves can be studied. In his monthly radio programme Mann ki Baat, Modi said Indian scientists were also in the research team that studied gravitational waves.
The proposed Indian laboratory will be third of its kind in the world after Hanford in Washington and Livingston in Louisiana, both in the US. The Indian LIGO Lab will be a national facility for gravitational-wave research, providing opportunities for the broader scientific community to participate in detector development, observation, and data analysis.
The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, said, "recently the Gravitational Waves have been discovered by the scientific community of the world, which is indeed a major achievement. We should be proud of the fact that Indian scientists were also part of it. Keeping this in mind, we have taken a decision to open a LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) in India".
Earlier, on 11th Feb., announcement, that scientists had, for the first time, proof that space itself vibrates is expected to unleash a bevy of discoveries about things that go bump in the proverbial darkness. The initial detection of so-called gravitational waves occurred in September when a pair of black holes, each about 30 times more massive than the sun, spiraled in toward each other and then merged into a new, larger black hole more than 1.3 billion light years away.
LIGO observatories in Louisiana and Washington had just been upgraded when the detection was made. Scientists spent months verifying the gravitational waves’ footprint, which changed the length of the laser light arms an amount 10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a proton. Meanwhile, LIGO continued to monitor for other space-shaking cosmic booms.
The above mentioned, latest research about Gravitational Waves has created a lot of hype and sensation, all across the world. The future opportunities and advancement in our knowledge, about universe formation, lies in the further research and development of the LIGO programme and to attain the year's long goal, the announcement by PM Narendra Modi is being seen as a major step by Indian, towards the same goal.
The prime minister announced that within its limited resources India will also participate and contribute in the research through the LIGO.
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