 Just what happened except I thought it would come more quickly. I was overly optimistic about how long it would take I thought we would likely see gravitational waves by 2000 the team has closed the detectors down for about 16 months to improve them this takes a long time, but if we if the team can make these improvements, so we see three times farther than the volume of the universe we see is three cubed or 27 times bigger And so instead of seeing one pair of black holes collide each month when the detectors are operating They should see approximately one every day That's the main reason I have done science My grandfather when I was four years old said to me If you find a job when you grow up that is like play, then you will have succeeded in life And science for me was like play and so yes, I I've maintained that enthusiasm all the way through I had a telephone call as people in America do in the middle of the night and the voice on the other end I From the Nobel committee said it will not surprise you that we are awarding the Nobel Prize to you To Barry bearish and to Rainer Weiss for your contributions to LIGO. I said it does not surprise me at all I was expecting it, but I'm disappointed And I was disappointed I have been disappointed because the discovery of gravitational waves is the result of the efforts of a team of a thousand people and It's really the entire team that deserves the credit and not the three of us who got the prize and I told the Nobel committee they really have an obligation to the people of the world to educate people outside science about the importance of Collaborations and that certain kinds of big discoveries can only be done through large Collaborations where people work together in a very effective and very organized way Why do I do it one? It's fun. I Was a Conventional professor for nearly 50 years. I've been there. I had done that. I wanted to do something different I enjoy working with brilliant people who are very creative who are different than I am and filmmakers artists musicians who are my My collaborators now on my projects They're very different, but they're very creative and very interesting and we each bring different Different skills and experiences to a collaboration. So it's enjoyable But it also is a way to inspire people especially young people about science The goal in that movie from the outset from the very beginning was to do a movie that is based on real science But a movie that also Bridges over the boundary of our current knowledge So there are pieces of the movie that are spec very speculative in regions where we don't understand the laws of nature Very well so-called laws of quantum gravity and then other areas that are very well understood Like the physics of black holes as turns out very well understood we had a guideline that we agreed to that Nothing in the movie would violate well-established laws of physics and all of the speculations would come from science and not come from just the mind of a screenwriter and Christopher Nolan Agreed to that so long as it did not in the way of making a great movie He was afraid at the beginning that I would be what he called the science police But he quickly came to and I was I was afraid that he wouldn't respect the science But with within an hour or two of working together it became clear to both of us that That we had the same goals and that we were working together to brainstorm together to find ways to do the science in a really interesting manner. I have a Book that I'm very enthusiastic about that I hope to finish this year That's a collaboration with a painter Her name is Leah Halloran, and it's her paintings of Warped space and time black holes the birth of the universe things where Space and time are strongly warped and it was originally my words that went with that, but I very carefully improved the wording so it would flow beautifully like her Paintings and then a book designer broke my words up into Segments that look like poetry and I decided gee this could be poetry So I'm trying to turn it into real poetry