More physics license plates

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Some more physics license plates, submitted by Jorge Pullin of Louisiana State University. See the whole collection here. GMUNU (Gμν) represents Einstein's metric tensor from the general theory of relativity and G WAVE refers to gravitational waves, the research interests of Pullin and his wife Gabriela Gonzalez.

G WAVE

GMUNU

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