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In the beginning, the spider web “music” was very weird, but after a moment I saw myself immersed in an obscured jungle feeling hunted by something unknown. It’s a mysterious sound, but not unpleasant. If I have listened to only the spider web music since my conception, how possibly I could know there are other kinds of music? The way we are exposed to the environment significantly shapes the way we can “absorb” the unknown.
Amino acids as the building block for the silk protein are generally colorless. Is there any way that a spider could be genetically modified, or somehow the prey be injected with something that would result in the spider producing a web with different colored silk? I would then love to learn if this has any implications on the web structure (both integrity and its ability to attract prey) when compared to a normal web.
I believe LIGO truly showcases the great discoveries that can be made by humanity when engineers and physicists come together from across the world to push the boundaries of science. LIGO especially showcases the thorough scientific methodology that is required to arrive at breakthrough findings. Being able to create detectors with that amount of precision requires great engineering and understanding of noise elimination. Once the data had been recorded, it was especially interesting to compare Einstein’s theory to the real data, seeing how both models worked hand-in-hand. LIGO pushed the boundaries of accuracy in instrumentation and international collaboration, proving that science keeps improving — it is a major scientific achievement of our time.