Name: Rainer Weiss wins Nobel Prize in physics
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OK, I'm Rainer Weiss, W-E-I-S-S. I am emeritus professor

Past simple

What was your initial reaction when you first saw the signal

Well, I was on vacation when I saw it, I was up in Maine.

And everybody has their own story about this, I'm sure.

But I was in Maine and my family was with me.

My daughter was not there, she was in Singapore.

And I woke up, I went to the computer as I do every morning.

You know, we have logs that come from the sites,

They had canceled something that was going on--

these are days when you fix the apparatus.

from David Shoemaker, who you're going to be talking to.

He says, hey, there's something interesting that happened.

So I called MIT and I find out what it was.

And of course, I gave it all away, everybody knew it

I mean you can't keep that a secret from your wife

You know, and my son said, what the hell happened?

And anyway, and then we followed it from there.

But other people more dramatically were at the sites.

And it took us a while to get to the point where all of us--

and that's why we've written this paper--

And somewhere deep inside of me, of all the criticism

that we have had and there are still plenty of criticisms.

People are saying, look, this theory that you're

You know, that kind of thing sort of gets

at you after a while, although you don't try to--

at me for probably some number of-- well, 20 years.

He's still walking around on the floor a little bit.

I mean, we've got to get the design with Advanced LIGO.

Man has finally seen storm field gravity, for Pete's sake.