Posted on 01/12/2016 9:00:15 PM PST by BenLurkin
There has been no announcement, no peer review or publication of the findings - all typically important steps in the process of releasing reliable and verifiable scientific research.
Instead, a message on Twitter from an Arizona State University cosmologist, Lawrence Krauss, has sparked a firestorm of speculation and excitement.
Krauss does not work with the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, or LIGO, which is searching for ripples in the fabric of space and time.
But he tweeted on Monday about the apparent shoring up of rumor he'd heard some months ago, that LIGO scientists were writing up a paper on gravitational waves they had discovered using US-based detectors.
"My earlier rumor about LIGO has been confirmed by independent sources. Stay tuned! Gravitational waves may have been discovered!! Exciting," Krauss tweeted.
His message has since between retweeted 1,800 times.
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Someone is rewriting the law of gravity?
Obama probably. He rewrote every other law.
Nah - just waving at it.
;>D
Is there a problem with the Earth’s gravitational pull?
It’s just evidence of the parallel universe Obama created.
No, not re-writing the law of gravity.
Clearly a by-product of alien ‘braking’ technology from the incoming star ships...
Read a scifi book about this, fun stuff...
(World of the Chernyi:First Strike)
Peer-reviewed qualifications remind me of the blind leading the blind. There was a time when science more openly allowed certain premises to be questioned. Well . . . that may be too simplistic. There are still Galileos out there, even in some universities. It just seems like there are very few.
Krauss I believe is best known to many as Richard Dawkins atheist pal,
Regardless, will be interesting to hear of any news on gravity waves,
Let me guess, the EPA will declare gravity a pollutant.
Wait, has SC heard about this? Prove it.
I knew a guy that was an expert in the design and manufacture and use of gravity meters. He did work for the government at one point trying to resolve targeting errors for the ballistic missiles due to the gravitational changes over various land masses. It led to him studying the possibility of anti-gravity forces. Pretty interesting stuff!
And the Feds will tax all users of this gravity pollutant.
It is for the childrun, don't you know...
If I could lose some of this gravity, my BMI # would be a lot better.
It's much worse than that. The IRS has plans to tax everyone who still has their feet on the ground. They have advance notification from John Roberts that the tax is not unconstitutional.
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
And they did it with Lego - even more cool!
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