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I'm going to save you some time, having lost mine. The article consists of a sociologist listing the mentions of gravitational waves he has seen in the media. B
by Camillo 10y ago
I'm going to save you some time, having lost mine. The article consists of a sociologist listing the mentions of gravitational waves he has seen in the media. But it has no meat to it, and there is no payoff: it just lists them, and ends. It's excerpted from the guy's book, but it won't make you want to buy it.
The only slightly surprising things (I won't go as far as to say "interesting") are:
1) The Daily Mail and Barack Obama apparently made the same mistake about Einstein's predictions.
2) Without comment:
> Later I will discover that my major thesis about social construction, which turns on pointing out that no gravitational waves were seen but merely a few numbers that were interpreted as gravitational waves, has been thoroughly anticipated (albeit on a strange, flat-earther YouTube channel that appears to treat conspiracy theories as an art form).
- c517402 10y ago"1) The Daily Mail and Barack Obama apparently made the same mistake about Einstein's predictions." Einstein predicted the phenomena of gravitational waves mentioned by Obama, but Einstein did not predict the gravitational wave chirp of coalescing black holes detected by LIGO and mentioned in by The Daily Mail.