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The 2017 Nobel Prize For Physics Goes To Three Scientists Who Proved Einstein Right (fastcompany.com)

Posted by msmash on from the recognition-time dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: The three physicists, Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish, won the coveted prize for the detection of gravitational waves -- the ripples in the fabric of spacetime that were first predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago. Weiss, Thorne, and Barish made the discovery as part of the LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration back in February 2016. It was then that they had recorded gravitational waves coming from the collision of two massive black holes a billion light-years away.

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  1. A billion light years by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's not even possible. The earth has only existed for 6,000 years.

    1. Re:A billion light years by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 4, Funny

      They are light years. They contain much less time by volume than your regular years.

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      Ezekiel 23:20