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Creating Waves in Science

02/09/2016 6:56 AM

Heads up!

Thursday morning is the day for the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) to hold a press conference.

The rumors have been that we might have evidence for the detection of gravity waves. Perhaps Thursday will shed some light on that.
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02/09/2016 7:05 AM

Leaked reports state that LIGO detected the merger of two black holes (29 and 36 solar masses each) with a sigma of 5.1.

That's a pretty high degree of certainty.

The propagation speed for the wave is consistent with the speed of light with a ring down to kerr at the end.

Results of this detection or something similar are to be published in Nature on February 11 as well.
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02/09/2016 7:27 AM

Wow, must be so cool.

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02/09/2016 8:30 AM

This is pretty cool. This is the sort of thing they hand out Nobel Prizes for.
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02/09/2016 12:42 PM

It's really a shame that they diluted the stature of the prize by handing them out for other things.
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02/09/2016 8:46 AM

LIGO............. will shed some light on that.

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02/09/2016 10:12 PM

Maybe you have some sort of typo error, perhaps.

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02/09/2016 10:23 PM

Maybe, or:
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02/09/2016 9:26 PM

I now live very near to the (or a) main facility for this, but I'm not sure it is the only one. One of these days I'll take a tour.

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02/11/2016 10:56 AM

Headlines!!!

Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html

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02/12/2016 9:54 AM

Finding it out may be not a big deal, but the ultimate discovery that should have the most credit is, could they generate even tiny wave in the laboratory.

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