Science, Shared students delve into explaining Einstein Telescope

Science, complicated? Master’s students and PhD students at KU Leuven took on the challenge of explaining their subjects in a understandable explanations. The Einstein Telescope proved a popular topic.

Can we present science comprehensibly? That was the key question master students and doctoral students (PhDs) at KU Leuven recently set to work in the course ‘Science, Shared’. The course is part of the university’s Science Communication and Outreach programme.

Of all the subjects available, there was the most enthusiasm to work with the Einstein Telescope. As many as 5 of the 39 groups of students bent their minds from various perspectives on the future observatory for gravitational waves. This resulted in, among other things among other things, this beautiful video entitled ‘1 Minute Einstein Telescope’ (YouTube, English).