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Long ago, deep in space, two massive black holes—the ultrastrong gravitational fields left behind by gigantic stars that collapsed to infinitesimal points—slowly drew together. The stellar ghosts spiraled ever closer, until, about 1.3 billion years ago, they whirled about each other at half the speed of light and finally merged. The collision sent a shudder through the universe: ripples in the fabric of space and time called gravitational waves. Five months ago, they washed past Earth. And, for the first time, physicists detected the waves, fulfilling a 4-decade quest and opening new eyes on the heavens.
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Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves 100 years ago, but directly detecting them required mind-boggling technological prowess and a history of hunting. LIGO researchers sensed a wave that stretched space by one part in 1021, making the entire Earth expand and contract by 1/100,000 of a nanometer, about the width of an atomic nucleus. The observation tests Einstein’s theory of gravity, the general theory of relativity, with unprecedented rigor and provides proof positive that black holes exist. “It will win a Nobel Prize,” says Marc Kamionkowski, a theorist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
LIGO had been in operation for over a decade with no results. Then an "upgrade" recently led to the breakthrough allowing it to make the observation, which was something on the order of less than the diameter of a subatomic particle. To me, the ability to reliably measure such a tiny disturbance is the real news.
I seen a light wave and a Partical double helix.I also saw a sub atomic worm hole open in my dinning room.Light escaped it but it was like a rainbow and it was moving along the carpet,like it was static electricity.
LISA Pathfinder Reports Record-Breaking Gravitational Wave Results
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First predicted by Einstein more than a century ago as part of his general theory of relativity, gravitational waves are produced by some of the most energetic events in the universe—exploding suns, rapidly spinning neutron stars and colliding black holes."]First predicted by Einstein more than a century ago as part of his general theory of relativity, gravitational waves are produced by some of the most energetic events in the universe—exploding suns, rapidly spinning neutron stars and colliding black holes.
Those videos are a mixture sf science and very bad interpretations of it.
I agree with this commentator.
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This isn't conclusive proof or anything, but you can look at his face during the press conference and it is SO very strained and awkward. I mean just look at it. He is trying to tell a lie and failing.
Also, if you watch the full video of the press conference, the only proof they give is like a two second recording and it is the fuzziest, most inconsequential, utterly anti climatic blip you will ever hear.
Compare that proof to the four or five times they revamped their observation equipment to measure the cosmic microwave background JUST to re-check the anomalies they were getting that showed it (the CMB) was not homogeneous and isotropic, and that it all seemed to be oriented around earth's ecliptic plane.
These observations have been going on for decades, but this first time blip is enough proof?? It's just disturbing.
You need to keep your religious based propaganda in the religious forum.
Do tell what the point of this garbage you posted is about? Do you think the Earth is flat? Just exactly what point are you personally trying to say with these utterly bs videos?
I am surprised this is even allowed to be posted in the Space forum.
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LISA Pathfinder Reports Record-Breaking Gravitational Wave Results
