US Restarts Hunt For Gravitational Waves With Advanced LIGO

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @10:44AM from the looking-for-the-answers dept.

schwit1 writes: The hunt for gravitational waves began again for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)-the largest instrument of its kind. The restart follows a five-year-long, US $200-million project to overhaul the experiment's detectors. Many physicists believe the revamped experiment, dubbed Advanced LIGO, will be the first to find direct evidence of gravitational waves: ripples in the fabric of space-time that can be created by, among other things, a pair of neutron stars or black holes orbiting each other. Gravitational waves were first theorized in 1916 by Albert Einstein as a consequence of his general theory of relativity, which celebrates its centennial this year.

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Re:The age old question by PolygamousRanchKid+ · 2015-09-22 11:28 · Score: 4, Funny

Schrödinger's cat can answer this: it's radiating energy and it's not radiating energy at the same time.
Schrödinger's cat can explain any physics question. Except when it can't.
At the same time.

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Re:The age old question by MrL0G1C · 2015-09-22 11:37 · Score: 3, Funny

And if we detect gravity waves, are we gonna wave back?

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