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Physicists Gear Up To Catch a Gravitational Wave
sciencehabit writes: A patch of woodland just north of Livingston, Louisiana, population 1893, isn't the first place you'd go looking for a breakthrough in physics. Yet it is here that physicists may fulfill perhaps the most spectacular prediction of Albert Einstein's theory of gravity, or general relativity. Structures here house the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), an ultrasensitive instrument that may soon detect ripples in space and time set off when neutron stars or black holes merge. Einstein himself predicted the existence of such gravitational waves nearly a century ago. But only now is the quest to detect them coming to a culmination. Physicists are finishing a $205 million rebuild of the detectors, known as Advanced LIGO, which should make them 10 times more sensitive and, they say, virtually ensure a detection.
Because climatologists never use field data...
Oh wait, they do, that must me you're either a liar or a retard.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Fortunatley, they don't, and you're still either a liar or a retard. One thing is for sure, you're beneath contempt.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Climatologists get paid whether the world is warming or cooling, and it's not as if the politicians are doing much in regards to what the scientists are saying.
Besides, there's a lot more profit in being a mouthpiece for the fossil fuel industry.
But hey, maybe you can hire Ben Stein to narrate a documentary detailing how all the biolo... er climatologists are in an evil cabal to hide the truth.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
> These detectors will let us do gravitational wave astronomy much like we do with light and radio waves now.
Mmmm, more like neutrino I'd say. You can't point your GWD at an object.