What on Earth are gravitational waves?

This is somewhat a rant. The internet’s losing its mind over the discovery of gravitational waves. I normally try to stay on top of news, so I tried reading articles trending on the internet to at least get an abstract understanding of it. Not having blessed with a particularly science-friendly mind, they lost me a few paragraphs in. I even watched several videos of Physicists breaking it … Continue reading What on Earth are gravitational waves?