Gravitational waves from black holes detected

"Your theory of mavity doesn't address the fact as to why there are no unicorns, so it must be wrong."
 
The Universe is ready to reveal the answers, one must be prepared and ready for the unveiling of the ultimate truth.
 
Experiments like this leave me a little udnerwhelmed. I mean I am no scientist but couldn't we have just assumed they existed.
My point being is what can we do with this information, to me it seems useless. I can't go out and build myself an antigravity machine now I know they exist, because surely I would have tried that regardless based on an assumption.

Science at the moment seems to be confirming things, but at no point using this confirmations for anything useful.
 
ChroniC said:
Experiments like this leave me a little udnerwhelmed. I mean I am no scientist but couldn't we have just assumed they existed.
My point being is what can we do with this information, to me it seems useless. I can't go out and build myself an antigravity machine now I know they exist, because surely I would have tried that regardless based on an assumption.

Science at the moment seems to be confirming things, but at no point using this confirmations for anything useful.
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Science needs proof of assumptions for a start, they had been theorized for over a hundred years so to find them pretty much now proves the theory of General Relativity

Also, because they pass through all matter unimpeded we can use them to 'peer' deeper into the Universe into places light/radio/Xrays etc can't pass through, so we should be able to 'see' things we've never been able to before

So yes, it is a great discovery :)
 
ChroniC said:
Experiments like this leave me a little udnerwhelmed. I mean I am no scientist but couldn't we have just assumed they existed.
My point being is what can we do with this information, to me it seems useless. I can't go out and build myself an antigravity machine now I know they exist, because surely I would have tried that regardless based on an assumption.

Science at the moment seems to be confirming things, but at no point using this confirmations for anything useful.
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Confirmations mean more investment. Prove something and then far more companies will fund RnD for it.
 
D3K said:
Confirmations mean more investment. Prove something and then far more companies will fund RnD for it.
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Exactly. It will be quite exciting to see the equipment that comes out the back of this to peer further into the origins of the universe. The satellite based interferometers look pretty cool and should be able to provide more detailed information above what's been detected on Earth
 
Retard question ahoy. We have known about mavity for a while and can measure/predict its effects, how's this different?
 
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