Manuel Hohmann
Member since:
01 June 2005
Country:
Germany
BOINC ID:
85091
Background
I'm a physics student from Hamburg, Germany. I started exploring this planet in the year 1984 just after my birth, but it took me some years to go beyond this scope and look for interesting things in our universe. After school I started studying physics (including astronomy and astrophysics) and I'm going to write my diploma thesis about string theory in a few months. Besides that, I'm a computer freak and operating system developer, a Star Trek fan (I speak a little Klingon) and a model train enthusiast. Some people say that I'm a freak because I use to put strange things into microwave ovens, turn my dorm into a computer farm and solve equations far into the night. If you share this opinion - you are absolutely right.
Opinion
Einstein's theory of general relativity has shown to be a very good description of gravity and the large scale structure of spacetime. There is, however, one prediction without direct experimental evidence so far: the prediction of gravitational waves. It is quite easy to deduce them from Einstein's equations, but it is very hard to find them. Lots of data have to be aquired and analyzed. Large interferometers are necessary and lots of computer power. Grid computing is a good way to do this work. That's why I support Einstein@Home: As a small contribution to a large project.