Posted on 02/11/2016 11:50:28 AM PST by RoosterRedux
After a decades-long quest, The MIT-Caltech collaboration LIGO Laboratories has detected gravitational waves, opening a new era in our exploration of the universe.
The Rat socialists would tax gravity waves if they could...
If it’s a wave, it has a frequency, and any object detecting it should have a resonant frequency. Suppose you calculated the resonate frequency of an object to gravitational waves, and then found some way to produce them. What are the possibilities then?
....or Michael Moore’s................
Very nice discovery, and I salute them for the effort and the accomplishment.
I will say that the presentation you linked us to left me less than satisfied with an explanation of how they executed this test or measurement.
They conveyed the idea one tube at a 90 degree angle to another would reveal a contraction while the other would reveal an expansion.
What they did not explain to my satisfaction was how they focused on a distant object and then converted that into the observable measurement.
Yes, I get contraction and expansion. How did they focus on the distance object, and apply that to the two observable tubes for measurement?
Did I miss it?
Shhhhh, this was epic. LOL
I will say, that the focus and observation of a distant object is pretty interesting.
Now, does the quantification of these waves mean that we will be able to block them anytime soon?
Will we discover a way to build an anti-gravitational device?
They say they can focus to the width of a human hair at astronomical distances. We have more than that much wobble in the earth. Sorry, but call me skeptic. Same thing as the “Higgs Bosen”. They slammed particles together, one stuck momentarily, and ‘eureka’ we found it. No, if it was found, it would be a fundamental particle, existing without such actions.
>If it’s a wave, it has a frequency
Exactly. Gravity waves have such a long frequency, it requires lots of mass to produce a significant wave.
Think of a sub woofer to reproduce the lowest of frequencies...the bigger, the better.
Same here.
I think it's going to take a lot of videos and articles for this material to be understood by laymen like me.
That said, if I read this correctly, this is a major breakthrough.
Could possibly lead to flying cars or even cures for male pattern baldness and constant constipation.
Big stuff indeed.;-)
There are no gravity waves and gravity is not a force. Gravity is a property of space to try to minimize itself.
I loved that miniseries and Connections as well.
Through us.
Gravity has been around for a long time so I would tend to agree.
If this IS the first they have detected them the only thing it is going to tell them is that their measuring tool is grossly undersized.
While what you say does make a certain sense, it’s the observation of the particles subsequent to impact that loses me.
I would need to know more about that process, to fully understand why they can make the claims they have.
Does the Higgs Bosen exist prior to the impact, or is something created that is claimed to be the Higgs Bosen?
It seems to me that when you get to this level of observation, that there could be a number of alternate realities that might account for this certain particle.
Do we really have the knowledge necessary to fully understand these dynamics? Aren’t we coming close to possible dimensional effects.
Perhaps this is nonsense, but it does occur to me that there are quite possibly things in this area that are perhaps beyond our reasoning.
that’s what i thought lol!!
you people should be on a government list for the next “Manhattan Project” :)
What bothered me a bit, was them trying to tell me what a big deal this was, as if I was too stupid to grasp that on my own.
Don’t forget, this was a result of us being really really really really smart.
Uh, I pretty much understood these people are very knowledgeable in these areas. Now, can they make a simple hamburger? LOL
Spend the time giving us diagrams and explaining the discovery in detail.
We really are smart enough to understand the concept, if you are smart enough to explain it in layman’s terms.
But it sounds like a really big deal.
Albert Einstein
Was there a build up to a peak than leveling off to a background level? Shouldn't be to hard to show an oscilloscope type picture representation of their observation.
Is it even considered a wave in the normal sense of waves as we understand them?
Whole lot of questions, very little data put out.
It is a wave...they don’t have to point the device anywhere. Think of a rock thrown into a pond.
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