In 1965 the engineer and future Intel co-founder Gordon Moore famously noticed that the number of transistors on microchips has been exponentially growing for several years, and predicted their unstoppable increase would thenceforward drive computing. Now known as “Moore’s law,” this remarkable forecast has largely held ever since.
Given the constant changes and advances in making microchips, a consistent trend of exponential growth seems nothing short of miraculous. But in fact, various other realms of technological innovation now exhibit this trend, too. One that’s most interesting to us—and, so far, largely overlooked—is the ongoing development of a technology, called gravitational-wave antennas, which detects distant black holes.
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