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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. Cool, but... by Mark_MF-WN · · Score: -1, Redundant
    This is cool and all, but I think Folding@home is more relevant and important. It's an amazing perversity that we know less about how the components of our bodies work than about how stars and black holes work.

    Still, the more people are donating their spare cycles to worthy concepts, the better. If this draws more attention to the whole @home concept, and lets some physicists do their research on the cheap, so much the better.