Watch Kip Thorne's "Long Haul, Towering Discovery" Video

Kip Thorne talks about the years leading up to LIGO's first detection of gravitational waves.

Watch a video in which LIGO founder Prof. Kip S. Thorne explains how a daring dream of a small team of researchers and engineers led to the discovery of gravitational waves:



Video credit: Caltech in association with Smartypants Pictures. Image credit: A still from the movie.