[SunkenCiv]

[Credit and Copyright: LIGO, Caltech, MIT, NSF]

[Cruising Speed]

But they have yet to detect any gravitons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-FSFtoeagc

[dp0622]

I really envy/admire you guys that can follow all this stuff.

not envy in a “i want his house and car!” kind of way lol.

just of the knowledge you’ve acquired.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Looks like a giant Flux Capacitor.

[Redcitizen]

LIGO my GEO.

[r_barton]

On Google Earth or Google Maps you can find the LIGO at:

46.455332, -119.407042 or 46°27’19.2”N, 119°24’25.4”W

[zeestephen]

Re: “Accelerate a charge and you’ll get electromagnetic radiation: light. But accelerate any mass and you’ll get gravitational radiation.”

I don’t understand the basic concept here.

Since “charge” is present in all protons and electrons, and since protons and electrons have “mass,” it seems like “acceleration” in some types of “mass” is exactly the same thing as “acceleration” in “charge.”

[tbpiper]

I can detect a gravitational wave every morning on my bathroom scale.

[DaxtonBrown]

“Together with its sister interferometer in Louisiana, these gravitational wave detectors continue to be upgraded and are now more sensitive than ever.”

As sensitive as Ben Carson? I think not.

[Delta 21]

Do they even know IF gravity comes in waves?

We are still befuddled over the wave/particle aspect of what we call light.

Yes! We is smart!

[Hebrews 11:6]

Those are some foul lines. You’d need some speedy outfielders in that ballpark.

[JoeFromSidney]

Years ago when I was assigned to Air Force Office of Scientific Research we were funding some gravity wave research at University of Maryland. That was long before LIGO. Back then the preferred way of detecting gravity waves was to use a large metal cylinder (usually aluminum) under the theory that a gravity wave would case the cylinder to "ring," and the vibrations could be detected.

I visited the site one day, as part of my regular duties, and noted that the researchers had bolted a license plate to the side of the case (not the detector itself). The head researcher told me, with a straight face, that this was the only licensed gravity detector in the State of Maryland.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I can’t make any Uranus jokes about this photo. I got nothin’.

[Red Badger]

It seems to me that Gravitational Waves should be fairly easy to detect..........................