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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes
NASA ^ | February 11, 2016 | (see photo credit)

Posted on 02/11/2016 4:37:17 PM PST by SunkenCiv

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To: Mom MD

Nonsense. Give me the specifics.


21 posted on 02/11/2016 8:28:48 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Hoosier-Daddy

Can you imagine the midnight oil being spent writing grants tonight?


22 posted on 02/11/2016 8:30:19 PM PST by Mom MD
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To: Future Snake Eater

I think the only thing they have figured out is that their tool is many orders of magnitude too small.

How did they know to look/listen when and where they did?

Einstein was one of a kind. 100 years and we can barely realize what he clearly understood.


23 posted on 02/11/2016 8:36:02 PM PST by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: Future Snake Eater

The only use of gravity manipulation I can think of is to alter the course of the Nexus.

That being said, I think that a through vetting of these ‘scientists’ is in order. Thats all we need is a maniacal madman using our own tax dollars to plan and execute our demise before we can do anything about it.....


24 posted on 02/11/2016 8:49:50 PM PST by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: zeugma
I've been following John G. Cramer’s discussions in the Analog SF&SF "Alternate View" column.

Here is his latest article from Analog:

http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw180.html

It's a long discussion on a new theory on gravity with 4-vector potentials overthrowing General Relativity.

Looks like Einstein won another round.

25 posted on 02/11/2016 9:24:18 PM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: miliantnutcase

Probably not a kaiser roll though.


26 posted on 02/11/2016 11:39:37 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Future Snake Eater

If it is flying cars then I know at least one reporter who is going to be overjoyed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hGjl3zcJMk


27 posted on 02/12/2016 1:10:19 AM PST by Krosan
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To: SunkenCiv

*rimshot


28 posted on 02/12/2016 8:45:12 AM PST by miliantnutcase
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To: Fungi
These black holes expended 5 solar masses of energy making these waves. Really? Prove it.

It was 3 solar masses. So I remembered the actual amount wrong. Sue me.The proof is here by the way.

29 posted on 02/12/2016 12:45:44 PM PST by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: Delta 21
How did they know to look/listen when and where they did?

They didn't . Gravity waves literally shake the entire Universe .You just set up a detector and wait for a passing wave to hit it.(They set up 2, to make sure the pattern detected matched)

Clearly shaking a whole universe spreads out the energy of any event by quite a bit. This is why it's so hard to detect: the passing wave contracts and expands the space it encounters by less than the width of a nucleus of an atom. That's why this experiment is such huge news. They have achieved a mind boggling precision which promises to unlock all kinds of secrets about the Universe.

30 posted on 02/12/2016 1:00:34 PM PST by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: Nateman
They have achieved a mind boggling precision which promises to unlock all kinds of secrets about the Universe.

This experiment was a gravity wave cattle call. Gravity waves should respond to lensing through a curved heavy mass so selective amplification could be done. We may soon be able to see the universe through a whole new "light".

31 posted on 02/12/2016 8:01:59 PM PST by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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