Shark still looks fake.
Gravitational waves from black holes detected
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Shark still looks fake.
That out there somewhere there is someone controlling everything with a set of dice...?
Life's a gamble, let's hope it pays off
My head's spinning
http://news.discovery.com/space/gravitational-waves-vs-mavity-waves-know-the-difference-160208.htm
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
I get the R&D thing, but for the sake of argument, just assume they exist without detecting them, are you likely to build a GW telescope tomorrow anyway. No, it's got to the point where science is so flipping hard that you have to build a billion dollar machine to prove one little thing cause you won't get your billion dollars to make your next machine wihtout it.
Do you see my point, there are no more garden shed inventors, like the telescope builders of the past etc. Imo we have come to a giant great big wall, and I don't see us getting past it anytime soon.
There will be no star trek.
On the BBC news article it said that one day we might be able to detect a ripple from the Big Bang, does anyone know how that works? Like is that a continuous ripple in Space-Time that we need to have very sensitive equipment to detect?
General relativity has been proven for a very long time. It's proven by the fact that GPS satellites have to adjust their clocks to account for being higher in Earth's mavity well. And before that, it was proven by the first observation of gravitational lensing. mavity waves are the final prediction to be confirmed, and they are what completes the picture.
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What a sad and depressing way to look at it. Amazing things dint suddenly come from scientific experiments they come decades or more later.
Secondly we get improvements and new things from such experiments the precision needed to detect gravitational waves is mind boggling, these experiments nearly always come with advancement to several areas of technology simply for them to work, .
Fantastic news, on wards and upwards, time to really improve the resolution of the technology they we can add it as a telescope rage to see the universe in a new form.
Essentially yes, we would need equipment strong enough to view the universe from billions of light years away. Theoretically listening to the beginning of the universe.
