A Capella Science
LIGO Feel That Space (The Weeknd parody)
[Verse 1]
And I know they could be testing me
The data might be wrong
A preplanned concocted recipe
And played up all along
But at least my graphs are beautiful
With sigma 5.1
This I know
This I know
They told me don't worry about it
Analyze the chirp and
No more
They told me be careful
And doubt it
But I've seen a merger
Of black hole-ole-ole-oles!

[Chorus]
LIGO feels when space is rippling through
With a wave of
Gravitation
LIGO feels when space is rippling due
To a tensor
Perturbation

[Verse 2]
Vacuum sealed interferometer
An L 5-mile long
Split a laser, bounce 300 times
Compare the distance gone
One built in Louisiana and one more in Washington
That's LIGO
Yeah LIGO
A Billion lightyear journey
To cover
Then it hit the Fabry-Perot
Lengthening one leg then
The other
Making fringes dance on
The dio- o- o- ode!

[Chorus]
LIGO feels when space is rippling through
With a wave of
Gravitation
LIGO feels when space is rippling due
To a tensor
Perturbation
LIGO feels that space is rippling through
From an ancient
Amalgamation
LIGO feels that space because it's crew
Gave it seismic
Isolation

[Bridge]
This event's power is
Enormous
Fifty universes
Of suns
We had indirect clues
Before this
All you GR haters
You were wrong -ong -ong

[Chorus
LIGO feels when space is rippling through
With a wave of
Gravitation
LIGO feels when space is rippling due
To a tensor
Perturbation
LIGO feels that space is rippling through
Can you feel the
Excitation?
LIGO's view of space is rippling through
Our collective
Imagination