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BOINC Project to Search for Gravitational Waves

Posted by simoniker on from the bouncing-around dept.

Buzz Skyline writes "Einstein@Home is a new, BOINC-based distributed computing project that will analyze data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO). The goal is to perform a whole-sky, gravitational wave survey of pulsars. Beta-test versions of the Einstein@Home screen saver should be available by the end of the summer, and final release is planned for early 2005."

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  1. America is a Shithole by I+Hate+America · · Score: -1, Flamebait

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  2. Gravity waves do dot exist. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why do we burn so much money on projects like LIGO or what have you? It should be clear by now that the geometric framework of GR, which is certainly clever and elegant, does NOT represent the underlying mechanism of gravitational interaction. The idea that "matter" interacts with the ambient space-temporal background is preposterous at best. Granted, GR is extremely elegant in its ways, but it can hardly be called a theory of gravity.

    Stop wasting time on those silly calculations: Gravitational waves do not exist.