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Danzig 02-11-2016 02:11 PM
gravitational waves detected
 
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/11/us/gra...eat/index.html


Einstein was right.

Just over 100 years after he published his general theory of relativity, scientists have found what Albert Einstein predicted as part of the theory: gravitational waves.



"We have detected gravitational waves. We did it," said David Reitze, executive director of LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, which was created to do just what Reitze announced.


awesome stuff!!!


However, the waves are so small that it takes a detector like LIGO, capable of measuring distortions one-thousandth the size of a proton, to observe them. They were observed on September 14, 2015.

Scientists heard the sound of the black holes colliding as a "chirp" lasting one-fifth of a second. Though gravitational waves aren't sound waves, the increase in frequency the collision exhibited in its last milliseconds -- when the black holes were mere kilometers apart and growing closer -- is a frequency we can hear, said Deirdre Shoemaker, a Georgia Tech physicist who works on LIGO.

newton would be thrilled if he knew....

joeydb 02-12-2016 02:01 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Danzig (Post 1055889)
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/11/us/gra...eat/index.html


Einstein was right.

Just over 100 years after he published his general theory of relativity, scientists have found what Albert Einstein predicted as part of the theory: gravitational waves.



"We have detected gravitational waves. We did it," said David Reitze, executive director of LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, which was created to do just what Reitze announced.


awesome stuff!!!


However, the waves are so small that it takes a detector like LIGO, capable of measuring distortions one-thousandth the size of a proton, to observe them. They were observed on September 14, 2015.

Scientists heard the sound of the black holes colliding as a "chirp" lasting one-fifth of a second. Though gravitational waves aren't sound waves, the increase in frequency the collision exhibited in its last milliseconds -- when the black holes were mere kilometers apart and growing closer -- is a frequency we can hear, said Deirdre Shoemaker, a Georgia Tech physicist who works on LIGO.

newton would be thrilled if he knew....
This was really cool. Einstein was beyond brilliant.

richard burch 02-14-2016 01:48 AM
speaking ofeinstein...



Anyone know what happened to Gino Buccola on TVG?
Quit?....Fired?

Anyone?

mark2061mn 02-14-2016 10:09 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by richard burch (Post 1056136)
speaking ofeinstein...



Anyone know what happened to Gino Buccola on TVG?
Quit?....Fired?

Anyone?
Left on his own, he works here:

www.eliteracingnetwork.com

richard burch 02-15-2016 09:59 PM
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Originally Posted by mark2061mn (Post 1056284)
Left on his own, he works here:

www.eliteracingnetwork.com
Cant say if thats an "upward" career move but good luck to him.

and Thanks for the reply. :)


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