Gravitational wave astronomy -- opening a new window on the Universe | Martin Hendry | TEDxGlasgow

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Did you know that gravity can bend space and time, and that clocks run faster at the top of a skyscraper? Martin Hendry describes how Einstein’s theory of gravity shapes our modern world, and how lasers, at the heart of the most sensitive scientific instruments ever built, are opening a whole new way of studying the cosmos. Martin Hendry is Professor of Gravitational Astrophysics and Cosmology at the University of