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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."

2 of 234 comments (clear)

  1. USB? by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do they have USB gravity wave detectors, so we could hook'em to our bozen too???

  2. Get Data and Geordi on it by sammeal · · Score: 0, Troll
    ..will search for gravitational waves in data collected by..

    This already sounds like one of those interminable ST:TNG plots in which "Data 'n' Geordi" spend the entire episode looking for tachyon/subspace/chroniton/photon/etc emissions/transmissions/communications/particles/b eamings/etc coming from the ambassador's quarters or that ship that was supposed to be in this sector that noone can see.