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>None of those people noticed before the instruments registered a detection. IIRC, the reason no one noticed is that even the strongest gravitational waves are
by jballanc 3y ago
>None of those people noticed before the instruments registered a detection.
IIRC, the reason no one noticed is that even the strongest gravitational waves are only going to "stretch" space by something less than the diameter of a hydrogen atom.
- MaxikCZ 3y agoCorrect me if I am wrong, the gravitational waves we measure have such small effect, that if we blew proton to the size of the Earth, it would get squished by distance smaller than a human hair. Edit: from wikipedia LIGO page: "(interferometers) are capable of detecting a change of less than one ten-thousandth the charge diameter of a proton" I dont know why I remember the human hair analogy, perhaps I am confusing it with something else?