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LIGO Will Make Gravitational Waves Announcement on Thursday
StartsWithABang writes: When we look out into the Universe, we normally gain information about it by gathering light of various wavelengths. However, there are other possibilities for astronomy, including by looking for the neutrinos emitted by astrophysical sources - first detected in the supernova explosion of 1987 - and in the gravitational waves emitted by accelerating masses. These ripples in the fabric of space were theorized back in the early days of Einstein's General Relativity, and experiments to detect them have been ongoing since the 1960s. However, in September of 2015, Advanced LIGO came online, and it was the first gravitational wave observatory that was expected to detect a real gravitational wave signal. The press conference on Thursday is where the collaboration will make their official announcement, and in the meantime, here's an explainer of what gravitational waves are, what Advanced LIGO can teach us, and how.
"We expect to find some any day now."
wow man, like really heavy stuff!
Here's a thought, why not wait until Thursday for the actual announcement instead of feeding shill accounts that link to ad block un-friendly sites who have been known purveyors of malware via ads???????
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How much is Forbes/StartsWithABang paying Slashdot?
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StartsWithABang and his Forbes bullshit again. So much for new management. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The heck with that...
A pox on web designers who feel that window.innerWidth == screen.availWidth
The "news about the news" has been out there for the better part of a week. Did you really just hear about it?
Can you imagine the quality of Yo Mama's So Fat jokes that will come out of this? You don't get that kind of entertainment without spending some cash on science.
What?!? Gravity is a communist conspiracy.... the matter all just collects together and in extreme cases fuses to become a single entity!
Real americans support big bangs, let the invisible hand of the universe guide your particles.
Can I have an option to just hide any articles with links to forbes.com ? That'd be really handy, thanks.
StartsWithABang must think Forbes is a popular science magazine.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-thursday-einstein-gravitational.html
This "we're announcing that we'll be announcing something soon" crap, I mean.
The first time I was really aware of it happening was with "Ginger", that silly self-balancing scooter. Then, and every time since, the announcement has been underwhelming at best. Most of the time it's a complete waste of time - so I now let these pre-announcements go in one ear and right out the other.
We have the Internet. If something cool is announced, we'll know about it right away. Stop wasting our time - and yours - with pre-announcements about coming announcements!
Truly we live in the future... but, unfortunately, too often this future makes Futurama look like a prescient documentary.
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.... or an alien intelligence has sent us in code the script to a movie about aliens sending plans for a teleportation machine
love is just extroverted narcissism
StartsWithABang must think Forbes is a popular science magazine.
Well it would be nice if he got his science right then. The first astrophysical neutrinos detected came from the sun and were detected by the Homestake Experiment in the late 1960s for which a Nobel Prize was awarded. Those from SN1987a were the first neutrinos detected from a source outside the solar system.
I thought I would be able to manipulate gravity using LEGO, but was quickly disappointed.
That is all.
Prior to the age of people being functionally retarded by sh!t ezines like Forbes, we called it an "explanation"
LIGO Scientists Will Make Gravitational Waves Announcement Thursday
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
How is "gravity is becoming less, because of global warming" a republican thing/ (Oops! Did I type that news out loud??)
The Earth sucks.
Catholicism is the largest Christian denomination in the world and its official stance is that the Big Bang theory is just fine with them.
My mother is an Anglican priest and, like most of her congregation, she accepts the Big Bang theory along with natural selection and pretty much every other established scientific theory.
I think the perception of Christians as anti-science is largely an American thing. Not completely - we do have that type here in New Zealand too - but apparently not to the extend as in the USA.
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The actual LIGO Media Advisory is here: http://www.ligo.org/news/media... (with a bunch of links to background info)
Dean Kamen will announce the new levitating Segway. It's going to change the urban landscape forever.
Actually it turns out they have identified a concentrated emitter of Gravity waves. Yo Momma. She so fat.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
A Christian priest DEVELOPED the Big Bang theory.
hope he get a Nobel.
The real announcement is that they studying gravity waves using a device intended to electromagnetically reduce the weight of a suspended object. IN the process they discovered a strange mold that normally takes 1 year to grow a layer had completely covered their apparatus overnight. They built a larger machine and crawled inside of it with a tank of oxygen and found themselves at next thursday. Thus they can't actually make the announcement until time catches up with them. They could go back in time to announce it now but then their current selves might got to the same meeting and this might change the time line destroying the future Thursday. So they have to wait till time catches up to them. Fortunately Aaron started a failsafe before he left so no worries.
1. gravity waves
2. time travel
3. ?????
4. Primer
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
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LIGO Will Make Gravitational Waves Announcement on Thursday
This is all so sudden! They should have pre-announced this pre-announcement. I mean, officially.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Catholicism is the largest Christian denomination in the world and its official stance is that the Big Bang theory is just fine with them.
That's irrelevant here in America, we don't care about what the rest of the world thinks. Just look at our measurement system.
The fact is, here in America, most Christians are fundamentalist or close to it ("evangelical"), and are very much anti-science any time science conflicts with their religious beliefs.
I think the perception of Christians as anti-science is largely an American thing.
Probably so, since here in the US the anti-science Christians are the mainstream (among Christians). But considering how large this country is population-wise and how much power it has both militarily and economically, our anti-science Christians count a lot more than pro-science Christians in other countries.
she accepts the Big Bang theory along with natural selection and pretty much every other established scientific theory.
"pretty much"? Which ones do they not? You can't be "pro-science" and then pick and choose what theories you believe, it's all or nothing. If you reject one theory, you're rejecting all of science and returning to irrationality. This doesn't mean you have to believe every theory is absolutely 100% true, in fact this is wrong too, and it's possible to opine that a theory is not well-supported by the evidence (but that wouldn't be an "established scientific theory" like the theory of gravitation), and science also requires you to be willing to change your belief as soon as evidence proves something wrong or forces a theory to be revised, but you can't just say "I believe in science" and then say "but I believe that [some well-established theory] is complete bunk even though I have no evidence to disprove it other than some vague fantastical stories by bronze-age sheep herders that were passed around as oral tradition for generations before finally being written down".
Most modern American Christians would say he wasn't a true Christian and that he was working for the devil.
In fact, a lot of American Christians don't believe Catholics to be Christians at all.
To be Christian is to be Christ like. He preached love and forgiveness. Most self-proclaimed Christians aren't Christian.
Slashdot needs to start a blacklist of domains, starting with forbes and medium.
The gravitational waves are also the long-sought graviton, right?
Every sufficiently advanced species receives this message and arrives at an existential turning point:
Either the planet's warring tribes and factions come together to make the film according to the aliens' script, proving themselves worthy to begin a 10,000 year "unpaid internship" fetching space lattes for alien directors;
or,
They ignore the message, puttering along trying to make it on their own as an indy civilization, probably never moving out of their home system.
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One of the LIGO programs is only 40 miles away, with a lot of luck the local newspaper might cover it.
Medium is a matter of personal taste. Forbes is just evil.
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This. A million times this.
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I wish I had mod points for this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–Morley_experiment