Talk | Limits of Knowing
Incipient Cracks in the Glass Menagerie
Artist Talk with Dr. Hartmut Grote (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics / Albert Einstein Institute) and Isabel de Sena
Rana X. Adhikari (LIGO Caltech) had to cancel on short notice.
In an interview with “Scientific American”, Prof. Rana X. Adhikari remarked that LIGO has “just made a machine that has given humanity a new sense, beyond the usual five”. In this conversation, we discuss how our new ability to hear and feel the bending of spacetime “with these brand-new gravitational fingers” is cracking the glass of our perceptual limits, and attempt to envision what other, yet unknown limits continue to determine what we can and cannot know.