[alpo]

I’m near one of the detection devices.

They wanted to put windmills on a mountain nearby but vibration from the turbines would disrupt the sensors. There are two perpendicular arms about a mile long in the setup.

[steve86]

Public tours at the Hanford LIGO facility (where the outdoor photos in the article are from) hosted twice a month.

The new equipment is capable of measuring very small disturbances of paths of the laser beams, on the order of one-ten-thousandth of the width of a proton. Even the first-generation equipment could detect waves breaking at the coast, 300 miles away (known background noise gets filtered out by software).

[spokeshave]

Maybe they can put it into reverse....and send a few gravity waves to the Sun to start up its Sunspots again

....otherwise we can expect another ice age.

[Disambiguator]

Advanced Ligo gravitational wave hunt is green lit

I'll take "Unusual Headlines" for $500, Alex.

[InterceptPoint]

As I recall, sometime in the late 50’s, Robert Forward was using a giant aluminum cylinder housed in the high bay area of the UCLA School of Engineering for what turned out to be a failed attempt to detect gravity waves. Almost 6 decades later and we’re still trying to find those illusive waves.

What if Einstein was wrong?