Rumors Flying Nearly as Fast as Their Subject: Have Gravitational Waves Been Detected?

Universe Today ^ | March 16, 2014 | Shannon Hall

[Jack Hydrazine]

ROFLMAO!!!

[tbpiper]

If there is evidence for gravitational waves

Yep, there's evidence. The crest of one of those waves hits my bathroom scale every morning.

[BenLurkin]

Good question — what industrial potential does this discovery have?

[MUDDOG]

I might could tell you if I hadn't cancelled Scientific American in June 2009 when they named Obama one of their top ten Americans in science.

But it seems like almost all the industrial apps come out of quantum mechanics rather than relativity.

Though I expect it'll have a practical impact someday (if we avoid destroying ourselves in the meantime.)

[Cyman]

“I hope they announce there are Nazis living on the Moon”

Coke Zero just attained escape velocity coming out of both nostrils.

[TigersEye]

If gravitational waves are the Holy Grail of cosmology
is the big bang the Holy Hand Grenade?

[Ingtar]

Did they run their experiment while the Malaysian flight was in the air?

[outofsalt]

I believe Einstein once said something to the effect that for a theory to be well understood one should be able to explain it to their grandmother.

Nana, I... I.., ah...

[Vermont Lt]

Okay...what has their religion have to with anything?

[Do the math]

Newtonian physics is just an approximation of Relativity. At slow speeds, Einstein’s special relativity equations of motion are approximated by Newton’s equations. You don’t need Einstein’s equations for GPS, but they would make it more accurate. Relativity has been proven mathematically, and empirically, time and time again. Newton can get you to the moon, work on GPS, and is find in our every day life, but it gives the wrong answers at higher speeds. One day we will have a solar system positioning system and it will require relativity to be accurate.

[Do the math]

Newtonian physics is just an approximation of Relativity. At slow speeds, Einstein’s special relativity equations of motion are approximated by Newton’s equations. You don’t need Einstein’s equations for GPS, but they would make it more accurate. Relativity has been proven mathematically, and empirically, time and time again. Newton can get you to the moon, work on GPS, and is find in our every day life, but it gives the wrong answers at higher speeds. One day we will have a solar system positioning system and it will require relativity to be accurate.

[Do the math]

find=fine ooops.

[stylecouncilor]

Ping

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Just in time for the 100th anniversary of general relativity?

[First_Salute]

Possibly they discovered Obama’s Birth Certificate?

[onedoug]

“...what she say.”

[PIF]

And I once long ago heard that the Nazi team working on their counter part were not Jews ... seems it was fortuitous that they had to abandon the project since they had not thought to include shielding in their reactor ...

[deks]

Backing the Big Bang - In breakthrough, astronomers find evidence of speedy ‘cosmic inflation’ of universe - Harvard Gazette - March 17, 2014

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/03/backing-the-big-bang/