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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. George Lucas's third and fourth chins... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    ...are proof of the existence of gravity waves.

  2. Re:ARGH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Thanks for sharing, but what does it have to do with the fact that someone's penis is on fire?

  3. Kind of worries me. by SushiFugu · · Score: 3, Funny

    The $randomwisdom at the bottom of slashdot currently reads "When things go well, expect something to explode, erode, collapse or just disappear." I sort of deep down hope they don't find them now.

  4. Re:Anti-Gravity Engine? by northcat · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dude! Star Trek! Not real!! Data!

  5. Man! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That guy really gets around. It seems like everyweek he's got another theory named after him. And in so many fields too!

  6. Re:SETI@Home by mr_z_beeblebrox · · Score: 2, Funny

    That is very negative. Remember your superior attitude at the end, when the last thing you hear is: "Your' planet has been scheduled for demolition to make way for a galactic..." etc....