[Don Corleone]

We need to find the most catastrophic events in the Universe if we hope even detect them.

Does Obama's re-election qualify?

[Blood of Tyrants]

I thought gravitational waves are what makes people fall down for no apparent reason.

[samtheman]

There’s a potential supernova only 8000 light years away and if it’s already gone supernova and the gamma burst arrives here next week (for example), it might also bring with it our first measurable gravitational waves.

[blueunicorn6]

Cowabunga! Surf’s up!

[aomagrat]

Don’t hit me with those gravitational waves so early in the morning.

[Beowulf9]

Comment below article is interesting.

“MarcusAurelius

The lack of initial results makes me think that being inside a gravity well may dampen the gravity waves – much like how an oscillating string could have it’s amplitude reduced by tightening the string itself. Hopefully the upgrade finds some results.

More Albie, please!”

[Terry L Smith]

I’ve read on these before, both in scifi and physics texts.

We, sitting here on Earth, a creator of these waves,
demonstrated by our hold on that big thing in the
night sky, find it hard to catch these waves from
‘out there’.

These waves are among the few ways of detecting
what is called ‘dark matter’.

I wish them luck.

[broken_arrow1]

Gravity should have wave-particle duality, so look for the gravitons. I
keep looking, but the bosons and quarks keep getting in the way...

[reed13k]

Never understood why they called them waves instead of field lines. I’d expect the grav field lines to align with the electromagnetic field lines in every respect except magnitude.

Why wouldn’t a model of grav field lines moving through speace result in similar results as one of em field lines moving through space?

[webheart]

Galactus doesn’t have a family.

[DaxtonBrown]

“What are Gravitational Waves?”

That would be Moochelle’s butt as she moves towards the gravy train.

[minnesota_bound]

Someone ask the Silver Surfer about the waves man.

[Steely Tom]

An enormous amount of money has been spent on gravitational wave detectors around the world, including two humongous instruments in the United States.

So far, not one of them has found a single signal. Not even a hint, a whiff, a ghost of a signal.

A whole bunch more money was just recently spent to upgrade the two US instruments so that their detection threshold is better by an order of magnitude.

I'm betting that the results are another big fat zero zilch nada, but I'd like to be wrong.

[IronJack]

We need to find the most catastrophic events in the Universe

Two words: Rosie. O'Donnell.

Two more: Michael. Moore.

And a final two: Hillary's. Butt.

[AFreeBird]

Please, Moriarty, none of these negative waves, man.