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There are two parts to this: * For the theories to be correct, the difference in arrival time between the gravity waves and the light waves would need to be mo
by wiredfool 9y ago
There are two parts to this:
* For the theories to be correct, the difference in arrival time between the gravity waves and the light waves would need to be more like 3 years. 1.7 seconds from 130 million LY is a very small difference.
* The gravity waves peak as the stars are just approaching each other, the gamma pulse happens when they collide.
- mcguire 9y ago"These two seemingly independent metrics [for light and gravity] can explain the structures of galaxies and of collisions between galaxy clusters, but the idea has consequences. For instance, if a something should emit both gravitational waves and light, the two waves will travel by different paths depending on the masses they encounter. So, light and gravitational waves won't arrive at a distant observation point at the same time." However, "The measured delay was so much shorter than the difference predicted by double metric theories that the researchers didn't even bother performing more detailed calculations. There is, in their view, simply no way to include the intervening galaxies and exclude dark matter. This is a dead MOND theory."