As if Milwaukee hasn’t had enough Nobel Prize and physics excitement in the past week, there will be another big event featuring 1993’s Nobel Prize in physics winner, Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.
Taylor will be visiting Marquette University to present “Binary Pulsars and Relativistic Gravity” as the seventh annual Rev. George V. Coyne, S. J., Lecturer in astronomy and astrophysics.
As a young boy fooling around with ham radio transmitters and receivers, Taylor went on to verify Einstein’s general theory of relativity. The Fact-Check of fact-checks, if you will. He, and shared Nobel recipient Russell Hulse, discovered a binary pulsar, which are two remnants of a supernova explosion. The extremely dense, strongly magnetized, and rapidly spinning pulsars were orbiting around each other and demonstrated the existence of gravitational waves, a phenomenon Einstein predicted.
Taylor is still exploring this through radio-wavelength studies and will be speaking on Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. in the Tony and Lucille Weasler Audiotirum. The event free and open to the public.
