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Thanks to Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, we have known that gravitational waves exist for more than a century. It wasn’t until 2015, however, that LIGO physically detected the existence of gravitational waves caused by two colliding black holes 1.3 billion light-years away.

For millions of years humanity has strived to predict the unpredictable. We do so much to control and predict everything around us, yet everyday we face things that cannot be controlled or predicted. We are surrounded by chaos; completely unpredictable systems that appear to be fully random, hurricanes, ocean currents, lava lamps, and even our own solar system.

Thanks to Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, we have known that gravitational waves exist for more than a century. It wasn’t until 2015, however, that LIGO physically detected the existence of gravitational waves caused by two colliding black holes 1.3 billion light-years away.