(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 27 - The Italian government is fully
behind the Sos Enattos site in Sardinia's bid to host the future
gravitational wave Einstein Telescope, Premier Mario Draghi
wrote to the president of the National Institute for Nuclear
Physics (INFN), Antonio Zoccoli, on Tuesday.
Italy and the Netherlands have so far put in bids to host the
telescope.
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.
The ET is a design study project supported by the European
Commission under the Framework Programme 7 (FP7). (ANSA).