“Space is enormously stiff. You can’t squish it.” Rainer Weiss, 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics

When Rainer Weiss comes to Stockholm, the people he is most interested in meeting is… high school students - the scientists of the future!

In this telephone interview, recorded immediately after his Nobel Prize was publicly announced, the 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics explains why measuring the effect of gravitational waves is so very hard to achieve, despite the extraordinarily high energies involved.

Listen to the full interview!