Understandably so: in the late 1960s Joseph Weber, a pioneer of the field, declared that he had found them when he had not, and mouths have been kept firmly shut ever since.

这一切都可以理解为：在20世纪60年代，这个领域的先驱，约瑟夫-韦伯，当他并未发现之一现象时便声称他的发现，甚至从那个时候开始真相就被雪藏起来。

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Joseph Weber built the first resonant mass detector in the late 1960s. Many similar detectors have been built, but they have not detected gravitational waves yet.

约瑟夫·韦伯在六十年代后期搭建了第一个共振质量探测仪。之后也有许多人搭建了类似的探测仪，但至今仍末成功探测到引力波。

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