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SoLeftIAmRight

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7. Another bad headline - so it is with science

Reply to WillyT (Original post)

Thu Feb 11, 2016, 01:33 PM

Feb 2016

About 1980 Joseph Taylor and Russell Hulse (Nobel Prize winners) began studying a double-neutron star system (PSR 1913 + 16 ) After 25 years they concluded that gravitational waves exist and they were able to show that Einstein's general relativity was able to confirm to observed effects to about one part in 1,000,000,000,000,000.

No the waves were not just discovered.

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Gravitational Wave Discovery Opens 'New Window On The Universe' - HuffPo [View all] WillyT Feb 2016 OP

Great ! Now the obvious next step ... phased arrays of LIGO detectors in 3D. eppur_se_muova Feb 2016 #1

Live as of 11:26 CST: Discussion at CERN of LIGO result....NO LONGER LIVE as of 11:45 CST.... xocet Feb 2016 #6

WHERE IS MY GOD DAMNED HOVERBOARD?! Qutzupalotl Feb 2016 #2

Hoverboard? I want the flying car they promised me. n/t nichomachus Feb 2016 #3

So a white haired dude was right. Wilms Feb 2016 #4

I was just reading an article about this, and it mentioned that a lot of energy mindwalker_i Feb 2016 #5

Another bad headline - so it is with science SoLeftIAmRight Feb 2016 #7

No, this is the discovery muriel_volestrangler Feb 2016 #9

??? SoLeftIAmRight Feb 2016 #10

The point is that the waves have not been observed before now muriel_volestrangler Feb 2016 #11

No No No SoLeftIAmRight Feb 2016 #12

MORE HERE: WillyT Feb 2016 #8

"Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Provides Direct Evidence of hue Feb 2016 #13