Posted on 03/16/2014 1:41:54 PM PDT by lbryce
Last week the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) stated rather nonchalantly that they will be hosting a press conference on Monday, March 17th, to announce a “major discovery.” Without a potential topic for journalists to muse on, this was as melodramatic as it got.
But then the Guardian posted an article on the subject and the rumors went into overdrive. The speculation is this: a U.S. team is on the verge of confirming they have detected primordial gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of spacetime that carry echoes of the big bang nearly 14 billion years ago.
If there is evidence for gravitational waves, it will be a landmark discovery, ultimately changing the face of physics.
Not only are gravitational waves the last untested prediction of Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, but primordial gravitational waves will allow astronomers to glimpse the universe in its infancy.
“It’s been called the Holy Grail of cosmology,” Hiranya Peiris, a cosmologist from University College London, told the Guardian. “It would be a real major, major, major discovery.” Any convincing evidence would almost certainly lead to a Nobel prize.
The signal is rumored to have been found by a telescope known as BICEP (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization), which scans the sky from the south pole, looking for a subtle effect in the cosmic microwave background (CMB): the radiation released 380,000 years after the big bang when space became transparent to light and photons were allowed to travel freely across the universe.
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To read the first few words of the headlines, you might have thought some missing aircraft was located or something.
Being a Jew, The Nazis would mock Albert Einstein for his Theory of Relativity and would never call him Albert Einstein or Dr. Einstein, They'd call him The Relativity-Jew-Einstein.
Any theory, scientific supposition or even ideology if it's source was Jewish, the Nazis would condemn, be resolutely against it, no matter what. This is the sole, single reason why Hitler despised Communism. For no other reason other than it was inspired by a Jew. I've always contended that the Nazis would never have built the atom bomb because to do so would have forced them to subscribe to the theories of Jews. The team that created the atom bomb via the Manhattan Project were nine scientists specialists in their respective field, each one was a fundamental key component for building an atom bomb and it just happens to have been that all nine scientists were Jews.
Gravity is by 40 orders of magnitude the weakest force in nature. Asking gravity to form up solar systems or hold galaxies together is like asking the littlest kid in the school to do the powerlifting event.
I hope they announce there are Nazis living on the Moon.
Nah, they’ll announce the primordial force is nothing more than the inexorable pull of funding needs drawing all citizens’ money to Washington DC. The speed of increase in the field strength has been increasing at an exponential rate since 1913.
Can warp drive be far behind?
Gravity sucks. It’s been holding me down for years.
The big announcement for tomorrow.
There is no such thing as gravity. The whole earth sucks.
I stand corrected. Thank you.
“Ron Hatch, the man who holds most of the patents on GPS, says that relativity is a bunch of bullshit and worse, that GPS works entirely on Newtonian physics and that, were you to try to make it work on Einsteinian physics, it would not work. “
That is not exactly what he said.
Directly to the point, he DOES NOT say that it works entirely on Newtonian physics!
I was really hoping some gravitons would show up to the party.
Life sucks, then you die and that sucks.
Shock diamonds?
Source: http://www.daviddarling.info/archive/2013/archiveOct13_2.html
Announcing the new Segway II.
Like a fat chick on a waterbed.
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