Govt ready to fund Einstein Telescope site

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 13 - The Italian government is ready to support the financial commitment to host the Einstein Telescope, the large research infrastructure for the study of gravitational waves that Italy has applied to build in Sardinia, in the area of Sos Enattos, at Lula, the Ministry for Universities and Research announced Wednesday.
    It said the government has sent a letter to Antonio Zoccoli, president of the National Nuclear Physics Institute (INFN) , the coordinating body for Italy's candidacy for ET, confirming its commitment, both institutional and economic, to ensure that the proposal is the winning one at the European level.
    The Einstein Telescope (ET) or Einstein Observatory, is a proposed third-generation ground-based gravitational wave detector, currently under study by some institutions in the European Union.
    It will be able to test Einstein's general theory of relativity in strong field conditions and realize precision gravitational wave astronomy. (ANSA).