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The groundbreaking work of two Australian National University physicists and the tireless efforts of a Bonython Primary School teacher have been recognised in the Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science. The ANU’s Professor Susan Scott dedicated 30 years of her life towards proving that gravitational waves actually exist. If Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity was correct, the ripples in space and time created the when large masses such as black holes collided would be detectable, but some scientists believed it to be impossible. On September 14, 2015, gravitational waves…
