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I am a bit shocked that the work by LIGO is so... unprofessional. How can one give away a Novel prize so easily.
by tanto 7y ago
I am a bit shocked that the work by LIGO is so... unprofessional. How can one give away a Novel prize so easily.
- dekhn 7y agoI don't really think that's what happened here (that LIGO's work is unprofessional) and I think the vast majority of scientists believe that LIGO's data (and the analysis) are reliable enough to conclude that they did, indeed, demonstrate the existence of gravity waves to a reasonable level of evidence.
- lmilcin 7y agoAlso remember, they are not only detecting signals, they are detecting same signal at two far away sites that could not be explained by anything originating from Earth.
- tanto 7y agoMaybe I misunderstood Sabine Hossenfelder but she wrote: > They just throw away data that don’t look like they want it to look. If I take white noise and an assumption about how my data should look like I can basically prove anything. If I take two white noise generators I am pretty sure I will still be able to find a signal which more less appears at the same time at both generators. I hope they did more than just select the data which fits their assumption.
- dekhn 7y agoA lot of very interesting information has been published by LIGO and in the popular press (no insult intended, but based on what you're saying I'm assuming you don't have any deep understanding of modern physics experiments). I wouldn't put too much weight on Hossenfelder's blog posts. She is very angry when things don't go exactly her way (in this case, IIUC, she's basically trying to hold LIGO to an unreasonable standard before accepting proof, and casting some aspersions which only experts in the field would be capable of evaluating).
- tanto 7y agoNone taken. I indeed don't have much insight into modern physics experiments. Can you recommend other physicist which give different insights into LIGO or other experiments?