FILE PHOTO: MIT Professor Emeritus of Physics Ranier Weiss delivers a lecture on using gravitational waves to explore the universe at the University of California Berkeley in Berkeley

FILE PHOTO: MIT Professor Emeritus of Physics Ranier Weiss delivers a lecture on using gravitational waves to explore the universe at the University of California Berkeley in Berkeley

MIT Professor Emeritus of Physics Rainer Weiss delivers a lecture on using gravitational waves to explore the universe at the University of California Berkeley in Berkeley, California October 3, 2016. REUTERS/Noah Berger/File Photo