So maybe we can’t travel in time but could we conceivably see backwards (maybe even forward) in time?
Outstanding! Thanks for posting.
Now we know that the first gravitational waves were detected on September 14, 2015 at 5:51 a.m. EDT (09:51 UTC) at both LIGO sites.
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I thought I felt a disturbance in the Force.
What I found interesting is that Advanced LIGO saw this gravitational wave almost as soon as observations began with the new and improved instrument. That should indicate that there will be many more announcements of gravitational waves to come as they are verified. Before it’s finished LIGO should have about three times more sensitivity.
This is definitely one of the most exciting discoveries in my lifetime.
Already it has caused a cosmic shift in my perceptions of reality and my life.
I’m fairly scientific, and I am still failing to see one real practical application of this discovery.
This does not mean that there will be travel in time.
What I find totally awe inspiring is the instrument itself - that it’s able to detect changes in length of less than one thousandth the diameter of a proton amid all the hundreds of background noises.
Truly mind boggling.
They dont know exactly where these 2 invisible black holes were but know they collided an immeasurably long time ago but with measurable energy outputs? ..and know the wave they detected came from this collision?
School of hard knocks, here. I understand the instrumentation, the fact that gravity waves have always been around, split the laser beam, yadda, yadda, ..Its just like saying that “that wave on this beach was caused by a Chinaman throwing a rock into the sea. But that one over there wasnt.
Im just lookin to understand it all.
Hopefully just bad writing.
Probly just me.
FWiW, I’m pretty sure that the LIGO installation pictured above is the one in Washington State, and not the one in Louisiana.
No mountains like that near Livingston, LA