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Double Pulsar Discovered

Posted by michael on from the double-your-pleasure dept.

jabberjaw writes "Nature is reporting that a set of two pulsars could be emitting gravitational waves. Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves in his general theory of relativity, but a gravitational wave has yet to be detected. Find out more about gravitational waves and pulsars at Eric Weisstein's World of Physics."

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  1. This is the biggest news since... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Linux 2.6.1 being announced!

    1. Re:This is the biggest news since... by Caedar · · Score: -1, Troll

      SCO! SCO! SCO! Teeheeehee! (+5 Funny!!)

    2. Re:This is the biggest news since... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Every academic professor and
      teacher ignorant of the Time
      Cube Principle, is stupid, evil
      and unworthy of life on Earth,
      for they lead humanity down a
      path ending with cannibalism.

  2. Whatever. by irokitt · · Score: -1, Troll

    Notice the sudden increase in space-related stories on Slashdot (and everywhere else) since the Mars landing? Not to mention Bush's Mars/Moon announcement.

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    1. Re:Whatever. by dwneonstar · · Score: 0, Troll

      Better than hearing about SCO and Lindows all the time.

    2. Re:Whatever. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Yeah, this will last for about a week. Then there will be echos of it every few months for a couple years, just to keep you sheep occupied. Baaaa!

      Then they'll do it all over again. You fucking morons.

  3. Re:How fast is gravity? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Gravity unlike any other force is instantaneous, which is why when you drop something it falls downwards and doesn't go to the side due to the earth accelerating sideways because of rotation, and also why planes can fly miles above mountains and not hit "gravity wells" when they go over the top of more massive objects like the rockies.

  4. A double set of pulsars... by SharpFang · · Score: -1, Troll

    Anybody knows how to build one at home?

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    45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B2
  5. Re:Actually you wouldn't notice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Of course dawn would still come. The earth is still rotating.

  6. YOU FAIL IT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    NIGGA PLEASE

  7. Re:Gravity doesn't pull, but rather pushes. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Congratulations on becoming the 4,580,704th internet crackpot to think he's disproved relativity.

  8. Re:Speed of Gravity by l33t+gambler · · Score: -1, Troll

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html WOW quicktime and realmedia! My 2 most favourite movie formats! oh the sarcasm! non-opinion mode: quicktime for windows is awful to use, it flickers with XPs alphablending crap and its skinned is round and not square which is space wasting and take resources/hard to accellerate for Windows 10 year old GUI. realmedia is just some mock-up of a format which heavily cuts down on FPS, colors and resolution. PLEASE dont use any WMF because of M$ hunger for taking-things-over-and-making-them-suck. how about divX or old MPG2? BTW M$ took over internet by bundling IE and giving it out free, now they want online video streaming standard with their WMV format. As its not open at all, M$ should be hacked or forced to give out source code and complete specs. At least give Linux etc a chance.

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  9. Pulsars by xtrucial · · Score: 0, Troll

    Pulsars. What is that all about? Is it good or is it whack?

  10. Re:Nothing new... by BiOFH · · Score: 0, Troll

    Eww! Horrors! How could one live with such a thing.

    *rolls eyes*
    Man, all this over one flippant joke....

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