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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:Not to push this down... by TheGavster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Some people want to live forever, some people just want to understand the universe. Its really a matter of personal preference.

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    "Because Science" is one step from "Because old book". Try "Because of my experiment testing my falsifiable assertion".