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Even Einstein Doubted His Gravitational Waves (astronomy.com)
Flash Modin writes: In 1936, twenty years after Albert Einstein introduced the concept, the great physicist took another look at his math and came to a surprising conclusion. 'Together with a young collaborator, I arrived at the interesting result that gravitational waves do not exist, though they had been assumed a certainty to the first approximation,' he wrote in a letter to friend Max Born. Interestingly, his research denouncing gravitational waves was rejected by Physical Review Letters, the journal that just published proof of their existence. The story shows that even when Einstein's wrong, it's because he was already right the first time.
New Einstein meme: The Most Interesting Physicist in the World.
"I'm not always wrong, but when I am, it's because I was right before."
I am not your blowing wind, I am the lightning.
and Beetlejuice
Even Einstein Doubted His Gravitational Waves
Einstein's own gravitational waves were probably really, really small/weak.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .