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Major research university located in Pasadena, California. Areas of research include general relativity, particle physics, quantum gravity and cosmology; in addition, Caltech is one of the main sites for the researchers (although not the detectors!) of the LIGO project, which operates the most sensitive gravitational wave detectors to date. Also, the Einstein Papers Project, which is working on an edition of Einstein’s collected papers, is based at Caltech.

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