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Great explanation of what it might mean: http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/02/09/what-will-it-mean-if-ligo-detects-gravitational-waves/#34ef8e7e4
by oneworld 11y ago
Great explanation of what it might mean:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/02/09/what-will-it-mean-if-ligo-detects-gravitational-waves/#34ef8e7e4726 http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/02/09/what-...
Also, how effing cool is it that we are able to detect changes in spacetime itself!
- dang 11y agoAn announcement of an announcement is always off-topic here, so we changed the URL from http://www.ligo.org/news/media-advisory.php http://www.ligo.org/news/media-advisory.php to that article, which is much more substantive. Thanks! The announcement itself, of course, will be on topic when it happens, but we can be patient.
- porsupah 11y agoFWIW, there's also https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/09/watch-this-spacetime-gravitational-wave-discovery-expected https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/09/watch-this-s..., with no adblock issues.
- dang 11y agoOk, we changed to that from http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/02/09/what-will-it-mean-if-ligo-detects-gravitational-waves/#34ef8e7e4726 http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/02/09/what-....
- qubex 11y agoWe've been “detecting space-time distortions” by means of falling for quite some time.
- jack9 11y ago> Sure, it travels through space at the speed of light, but it itself is a ripple in the fabric of space I don't believe that's been proven yet. I was under the impression that this was an experiment to provide evidence of the speed of gravity propagation.
- Florin_Andrei 11y agoSure, it's not been actually measured yet, but if it does anything different from that, we would have to do a pretty massive rewrite of several chapters of physics. It's a little unlikely. That being said, of course, anything could happen. Nature is not bound to follow our assumptions.