Are You Caught Up on Gravity Waves?

You likely read the NY Times article about the gravity wave detection announcement (did you also watch the great video on that page?).

Here's an alternative report, elegantly written.

If you want to go a little deeper, see the video and comic explainers at PHD.

For the lighter side, see XKCD's amusing take.

But, most interesting of all is the question: what does this all mean going forward - for science, for humanity, for our future? The media has done a poor job at explaining this, but here are four layman-friendly paragraphs, seldom-linked though it's written by the people who actually did this science, explaining where this discovery may take us. It's less than a 10 minute read, and it's pretty amazing and brings it all into context. Don't miss it!