David Shoemaker will never forget the date - September 14 2015 - when he woke up to a message alerting him that an underground detector had spotted a 1.3-billion-year-old ripple in the fabric of space-time.
A gravitational wave - predicted to exist a century ago by Albert Einstein - had been glimpsed directly for the first time by a pair of US-based detectors.
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