Michael (’08) and Scott (’10) Coughlin Contribute to Gravity Waves Discovery

Perhaps you saw the news today of one of the greatest scientific discoveries of our time?

Trinity School at River Ridge alumni brothers Michael and Scott Coughlin were a part of the LIGO team that today published findings that appear to confirm Albert Einstein’s monumental theory of general relativity!

“If replicated by future experiments, that simple chirp, which rose to the note of a middle C before abruptly stopping, seems destined to take its place among the great sound bites of science, ranking with Alexander Graham Bell’s “Mr. Watson — come here” and Sputnik’s first beep from orbit.”

Click here to read more about this mind (and space) bending discovery.