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A growing gravitational-wave detector apparently also served as exclusive rodent housing. In July 1998 a mouse built a nest in the glass-fibre cable tray. The happy family munched through the whole bundle. The team tried repaired it and tried to avoid further rodent incursions by installing plugs at the free ends.

On 7 December 1998, GEO600 was registered as one of the Projects of the World Exposition EXPO 2000 in Hannover. In the picture you see C. Ahrens, Head of Projects all over the World of the EXPO 2000, H. Walther, director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and K. Danzmann, director of the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics at @unihannover with the registration documents.

➡️ https://www.geo600.org/34900/1998

Pic: Press Office University of Hannover/C. Born

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A growing gravitational-wave detector apparently also served as exclusive rodent housing. In July 1998 a mouse built a nest in the glass-fibre cable tray. The happy family munched through the whole bundle. The team tried repaired it and tried to avoid further rodent incursions by installing plugs at the free ends.

On 7 December 1998, GEO600 was registered as one of the Projects of the World Exposition EXPO 2000 in Hannover. In the picture you see C. Ahrens, Head of Projects all over the World of the EXPO 2000, H. Walther, director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and K. Danzmann, director of the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics at @unihannover with the registration documents.

➡️ https://www.geo600.org/34900/1998

Pic: Press Office University of Hannover/C. Born

#GEO600Highlights #GEO600 #Research #ScienceHistory #GravitationalWaves

A growing gravitational-wave detector apparently also served as exclusive rodent housing. In July 1998 a mouse built a nest in the glass-fibre cable tray. The happy family munched through the whole bundle. The team tried repaired it and tried to avoid further rodent incursions by installing plugs at the free ends.

On 7 December 1998, GEO600 was registered as one of the Projects of the World Exposition EXPO 2000 in Hannover. In the picture you see C. Ahrens, Head of Projects all over the World of the EXPO 2000, H. Walther, director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and K. Danzmann, director of the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics at @unihannover with the registration documents.

➡️ https://www.geo600.org/34900/1998

Pic: Press Office University of Hannover/C. Born

#GEO600Highlights #GEO600 #Research #ScienceHistory #GravitationalWaves

A growing gravitational-wave detector apparently also served as exclusive rodent housing. In July 1998 a mouse built a nest in the glass-fibre cable tray. The happy family munched through the whole bundle. The team tried repaired it and tried to avoid further rodent incursions by installing plugs at the free ends.

On 7 December 1998, GEO600 was registered as one of the Projects of the World Exposition EXPO 2000 in Hannover. In the picture you see C. Ahrens, Head of Projects all over the World of the EXPO 2000, H. Walther, director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and K. Danzmann, director of the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics at @unihannover with the registration documents.

➡️ https://www.geo600.org/34900/1998

Pic: Press Office University of Hannover/C. Born

#GEO600Highlights #GEO600 #Research #ScienceHistory #GravitationalWaves

A growing gravitational-wave detector apparently also served as exclusive rodent housing. In July 1998 a mouse built a nest in the glass-fibre cable tray. The happy family munched through the whole bundle. The team tried repaired it and tried to avoid further rodent incursions by installing plugs at the free ends.

On 7 December 1998, GEO600 was registered as one of the Projects of the World Exposition EXPO 2000 in Hannover. In the picture you see C. Ahrens, Head of Projects all over the World of the EXPO 2000, H. Walther, director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and K. Danzmann, director of the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics at @unihannover with the registration documents.

➡️ https://www.geo600.org/34900/1998

Pic: Press Office University of Hannover/C. Born

#GEO600Highlights #GEO600 #Research #ScienceHistory #GravitationalWaves

In the spring of 1998 work on GEO600’s growing vacuum system continued. While the north arm was tested for leaks, the east arm was baked out. By fall 1998 the vacuum pressure was low enough to consider the procedure a full success.

During the summer of 1998 the double pendulum – used to isolate the optical mode cleaner from seismic vibrations of the ground – was prepared, assembled, and tested. Towards the end of the year, the control electronics for the pendulum were set up and were found to work excellently. Afterwards the seismic isolation pendulums were installed inside a clean-room tent at GEO600 with the help of colleagues from the University of Glasgow.

See some of our pictures from 1998 in the GEO Diary: https://www.geo600.org/34900/1998

#GEO600Highlights #GEO600 #Research #ScienceHistory #GravitationalWaves

In the spring of 1998 work on GEO600’s growing vacuum system continued. While the north arm was tested for leaks, the east arm was baked out. By fall 1998 the vacuum pressure was low enough to consider the procedure a full success.

During the summer of 1998 the double pendulum – used to isolate the optical mode cleaner from seismic vibrations of the ground – was prepared, assembled, and tested. Towards the end of the year, the control electronics for the pendulum were set up and were found to work excellently. Afterwards the seismic isolation pendulums were installed inside a clean-room tent at GEO600 with the help of colleagues from the University of Glasgow.

See some of our pictures from 1998 in the GEO Diary: https://www.geo600.org/34900/1998

#GEO600Highlights #GEO600 #Research #ScienceHistory #GravitationalWaves

In the spring of 1998 work on GEO600’s growing vacuum system continued. While the north arm was tested for leaks, the east arm was baked out. By fall 1998 the vacuum pressure was low enough to consider the procedure a full success.

During the summer of 1998 the double pendulum – used to isolate the optical mode cleaner from seismic vibrations of the ground – was prepared, assembled, and tested. Towards the end of the year, the control electronics for the pendulum were set up and were found to work excellently. Afterwards the seismic isolation pendulums were installed inside a clean-room tent at GEO600 with the help of colleagues from the University of Glasgow.

See some of our pictures from 1998 in the GEO Diary: https://www.geo600.org/34900/1998

#GEO600Highlights #GEO600 #Research #ScienceHistory #GravitationalWaves

In the spring of 1998 work on GEO600’s growing vacuum system continued. While the north arm was tested for leaks, the east arm was baked out. By fall 1998 the vacuum pressure was low enough to consider the procedure a full success.

During the summer of 1998 the double pendulum – used to isolate the optical mode cleaner from seismic vibrations of the ground – was prepared, assembled, and tested. Towards the end of the year, the control electronics for the pendulum were set up and were found to work excellently. Afterwards the seismic isolation pendulums were installed inside a clean-room tent at GEO600 with the help of colleagues from the University of Glasgow.

See some of our pictures from 1998 in the GEO Diary: https://www.geo600.org/34900/1998

#GEO600Highlights #GEO600 #Research #ScienceHistory #GravitationalWaves

In the spring of 1998 work on GEO600’s growing vacuum system continued. While the north arm was tested for leaks, the east arm was baked out. By fall 1998 the vacuum pressure was low enough to consider the procedure a full success.

During the summer of 1998 the double pendulum – used to isolate the optical mode cleaner from seismic vibrations of the ground – was prepared, assembled, and tested. Towards the end of the year, the control electronics for the pendulum were set up and were found to work excellently. Afterwards the seismic isolation pendulums were installed inside a clean-room tent at GEO600 with the help of colleagues from the University of Glasgow.

See some of our pictures from 1998 in the GEO Diary: https://www.geo600.org/34900/1998

#GEO600Highlights #GEO600 #Research #ScienceHistory #GravitationalWaves