Renewed Gravity Research Could Soon Yield Results

t482 writes "Dr. Michelle Thaller has a nice article describing the current thoughts on gravity. Why is it so weak? Detecting gravity waves has turned into a bit of a cottage industry. "We are close," says MIT physicist Rainer Weiss, a pioneer in gravity wave research for more than 30 years. "I think sometime in the next two or three years we will see something.""

Comments

30 years and still no results?

[Zemrec]

Damn...that's gotta be depressing.

(at the water cooler, 1973)
"Hi, Bob, seen any gravity waves lately?"
"Nope, but we're real close now."

(in an instant message, 2003)
"Hi, Bob, seen any gravity waves lately?"
"Nope, but we're real close now."

You gotta wonder what gets these people out of bed day in and day out.

Re:30 years and still no results?

[Mr. McGibby]

Complaining about teaching undergraduate classes.

My curious cat

[NanoGator]

My cat performs gravitic experiments all the time. He's even discovered anti-gravity. He pushes my cell phone off the desk, and within minutes it levitates back up to the desk.