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Gravitational Wave Detector Finds Double Colliding Black Holes — Again (Woot!) -

06/16/2016 9:23 AM

More gravity waves detected!

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/06/16/gravitational-wave-detector-finds-double-colliding-black-holes-again.html?intcmp=hpff
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06/16/2016 10:13 AM

I expected more gravity waves would be detected. I just didn't expect it to be this soon.

I wonder if these tiny waves might interact with other things? Might the gravity wave from the collision of two black holes be the factor that influences a random process to deviate. On second thought, I doubt these waves will effect anything. That brain phart was just me being in proposal mode for too long.

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06/16/2016 11:15 AM

How long do you think, we can make one minuscule gravity wave and make some use of it?

Maybe it's just the acceleration towards the negative side of the equation. I don't know..

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06/16/2016 12:07 PM

Why don't you figure out how to use the apparent change of about 1 part per billion in G due to these gravity waves, and make water flow uphill?

The part about two black holes spiraling around each other and thus flinging out all nearby ordinary matter seems interesting to me. Could there be a lot more of these around, and could they account for anomalies in the mass observed in the universe?

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06/16/2016 11:22 AM

Wow. I thought I was the only one who felt that.

All that wibbly-wobbly spacetime shaking made me dizzy.

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06/17/2016 12:53 AM

Well seems somebody send you a message! Intergalactic instant messenger program! Stay tuned - more to come!

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06/17/2016 9:45 AM

I don't know which is more astounding; that we've detected gravity waves TWICE in such a short period, or that Fox News has a science department that is giving fair and accurate reporting on a science event.

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LOL

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06/17/2016 1:34 PM

Now, that last comment is completely beyond the pail, somewhere over in the donkey pen.

Keep it up, and I will sick my media hater police on you! Not.

The last time I felt a gravity wave, I was on the Tilt-a-Whirl in Joyland about 50 years ago, and I just hurled my bologna sandwich when I got off the ride. All the girls in my 5th grade class were highly impressed with the volume and velocity of my regurgitations.

I thought Fox was supposed to give fair and BALANCED coverage, who cares about accuracy?∞

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