Posted on 02/11/2016 10:27:40 AM PST by Olog-hai
It took a century, but the theory from Albert Einstein handwritten neatly on paper that is now yellowing has finally been vindicated.
Israeli officials on Thursday offered a rare look at the documents where Einstein presented his ideas on gravitational waves, a display that coincided with the historic announcement that scientists had glimpsed the first direct evidence of his theory. [...]
In a landmark discovery for physics and astronomy, international scientists announced in Washington on Thursday that they had glimpsed the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time.
Einstein's theory states that mass warps space and time, much like placing a bowling ball on a trampoline. Other objects on the surface will "fall" towards the center - a metaphor for gravity in which the trampoline is space-time. Gravitational waves do not interact with matter and travel through the universe completely unimpeded. ...
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Good to know!
PinGravitational Waves!......................
Article doesn’t say how they did it!.....................
Yep, this is one of those stories where scientists give a sensational headline but the journalist has no way to understand if the scientists can back it up. And since they don’t really care, the journalist just goes with the story.
It’s usually the journalist that provides the sensational headline. Which I’m sure is the case here since the rest of the excerpt contains other nonsense.
Show me the data!...................or at least explain it in a way that is somewhat understandable!.................
On 14 September 2015, they (LIGO physicists) picked up a relatively big change in their Livingston lab in Louisiana, what you'd call a blip in the system. Then, 7 milliseconds later, they detected the same blip with their lab in Hanford, Washington, 4,000 km away, suggesting that it had been caused by a gravitational wave passing through Earth.
In the months since, researchers have been rigorously studying this signal to see if it could have been caused by anything else. But the overwhelming conclusion is that the blip was caused by gravitational waves -- the discovery has statistical significant of 5.1 sigma, which means there's only a 1 in 6 million chance that the result is a fluke.
In fact, the signal almost perfectly matches up with what scientists predicted gravitational waves would look like, based on Einstein's theory. ...
I think it involved Michael Moore, a trampoline, and a couple navy vessels (which I don’t think have been seen since).
Also, other scientists and maybe even hobbyists must have proven it since then a hundred times over.
Especially with the greater precision of modern day methods and tools.
Ah, waves. Got it.
Just think, if you could simply shield an object from the gravitational attraction from certain directions, you could sail a spaceship anywhere you wanted to go and never stop accelerating.
Good old Albert, still kicking around in peoples minds.
Still being proven right.
And to think his theories were developed when science was, compared to today, just a step up from the stone age.
mass warps space and time
space and time moves mass
E = MC^2 supports the Bible’s account of creation. God spread the universe out like a scroll. Since “God is light”, he is outside of the time/space continuum.
Thanks Red Badger. Proof doesn't matter -- my professor said, I believe it, that settles it. ;')
What did one ocean say to the other ocean?
Nothing, it just waved.
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