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New Distributed Project Seeks Gravity Waves

Posted by timothy on from the jeff-spicolli-knows-where-they're-at dept.

fenimor writes "Much like the popular SETI@Home distributed computing project that searches radio telescope data for signs of extraterrestrial life, the new Einstein@Home will search for gravitational waves in data collected by U.S. and European gravitational wave detectors. Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity predicted the existence of gravitational waves in 1916, but only now has technology reached the point that scientists hope to detect them directly."

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  1. Re:What do gravity waves tell us? by cot · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "gravitational wave detectors will provide us with a new window to the universe"

    Yeesh, boilerplate proposal material on slashdot?

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  2. SETI@Home by haakoneide · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    As much as I hate the money-burning project SETI, I hate the cycle-burning project SETI@Home. It's a shame that people put stress on their computers to do something that is sooooo unlikely to change anything. Use them on real science instead, like the einstein project, or the world largest grid - http://www.grid.org/ who participates in cancer research and proteome folding. Slashdotters of all people should not be victims to stupid beliefs like finding aliens.