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

Posted by msmash on Tuesday October 3, 2017 @03:20AM 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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Re:A billion light years by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-03 04:04 · Score: 0, Troll

I realize you're trying to be funny, but what your describing is still possible.
The summary is only saying that the two black holes existed a billion years ago. It's not saying earth existed a billion years ago.