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A movie of cosmic proportions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Venue<\/strong>: Webster Hall, Room 11, College Ave., WSU, Pullman. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time<\/strong>: Refreshments will be served at 6pm, along side Physics demonstrations, followed by movie screening at 6:30pm (run time: 87 minutes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cost<\/strong>: Free admission for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RSVP [Link]<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the movie:<\/strong> Picture an ordinary workday where your job is to catch a ripple in the fabric of space and time. That is the world of COSMIC CODA, a documentary that spends time with the people behind one of the greatest experiments in modern science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story begins in 1985, when a young filmmaker with more curiosity than expertise starts following a group of physicists chasing gravitational waves, the faint ripples Einstein predicted but nobody had ever detected. Years later, the filmmaker comes back to the same lead scientist and finds a new generation of researchers working alongside him. What has the long wait done to the dream? And what does it feel like to give a career to a question this enormous?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather than focusing on the grand announcement, the film lingers on everything around it: the routines, the setbacks, the late-night doubts, and the quiet satisfaction of fixing a stubborn piece of equipment. It asks the questions you might be too embarrassed to ask. How do you construct an instrument capable of putting Einstein to the test? Is there a toolbox involved? What does a person actually do on a random Tuesday while probing the limits of the cosmos?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The technology has advanced enormously since the 1980s, yet the hopes, frustrations, and stubborn persistence of the researchers feel strikingly familiar. Behind a breakthrough that reshaped physics, the film finds ordinary people, funny, fallible, and driven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join us at WSU for the screening and a conversation with the director, Mary-Jane Doherty, and local gravitational wave scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parking<\/strong>: WSU’s Parking Key below lists parking options neighboring Webster Hall<\/a><\/em> — the event venue:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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