Thanks Olog-hai.
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Posted on 10/03/2017 4:03:34 PM PDT by Olog-hai
For decades astronomers tried to prove Albert Einstein right by doing what Einstein thought was impossible: detecting the faint ripples in the universe called gravitational waves. They failed repeatedly until two years ago when they finally spotted one. Then another. And another. And another.
Three American scientists — including one who initially flunked out of MIT — won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday that launched a whole new way to observe the cosmos. Sweden’s Royal Academy of Sciences cited the combination of highly advanced theory and ingenious equipment design in awarding Rainer Weiss of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Barry Barish and Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology.
“It’s a win for the human race as a whole. These gravitational waves will be powerful ways for the human race to explore the universe,” Thorne told The Associated Press in a phone interview. […]
The waves are like “a storm in the fabric of space-time that is produced when two black holes collide,” Thorne said. The first detection came from a crash 1.3 billion light-years away. A light-year is about 5.88 trillion miles.
The prize is “a win for Einstein, and a very big one,” Barish told the AP. …
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General Relativity isn’t a decent theory?
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It’s an incredibly great theory, but Einstein himself said it’s incomplete.
Eisteins theories can be proved and don’t have to rely on scientific consensus or on my believing in science or on persecuting deniers. That’s because they are real science.
Funny how real science works. You don’t hear demands that people be jailed for denying String Theory.
Hopefully it will be my missing socks.......
“Sadly there are no nipples in my universe...”
If only you could crash two boobies together, maybe your universe could get some nipples too ...
Or Jimmy Hoffa. Maybe Jimmy Hoffa is wearing your socks.
That's not the same thing as there being no explanation of gravity. He wasn't talking about that.
FTA: detecting the faint ripples in the universe called gravitational waves. They failed repeatedly....”
I would just use some colored dye like these guys
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Thanks Olog-hai.
The best they can come up with is space is like a straight malleable plane, and when enough mass sits in one spot it creates a gravity well.
I always thought Ripple was an otherworldly drink when considering the other worldly creatures who drink it.
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