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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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Are gravitational waves and wormholes connected?
in theory’s involving quantum entanglement within a wormhole manipulated with unlimited gravitational energies, sure why not, that may help explain infinite speed,
of course I have no idea what I’m talking about :-)
If space-time folds over on itself how would ‘speed’ be defined between any two points?
Lots of smart folks here, I’m probably the last person on FR to ask :-)
I believe gravity may be the most powerful force in the universe vs. having an appearance of being a dispersed weak one,
However I was merely conjecturing as a thought experiment (not sure its even valid) but could two particles be entangled on opposite ends of a gravitational wave or ripple (or wormhole) and if so what does that mean for the speed of light? Its feels to me like the elephant in the room,
I’ve wondered why no one has suggested the possibility of a gravitational anomaly (natural wormhole) to explain KIC 8462852?
Einstein predicted them, so what would their appearance be, what would they look like if we actually spotted one far off in some other part of the galaxy?
As to the possibility of an infinite number of folds I don’t think so, to my way of thinking that is used to explain things which may be inconvenient,
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