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Rumors Flying Nearly as Fast as Their Subject: Have Gravitational Waves Been Detected?
Universe Today ^ | March 16, 2014 | Shannon Hall

Posted on 03/16/2014 1:41:54 PM PDT by lbryce

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To: cripplecreek

ROFLMAO!!!


21 posted on 03/16/2014 3:20:36 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: lbryce
If there is evidence for gravitational waves

Yep, there's evidence. The crest of one of those waves hits my bathroom scale every morning.

22 posted on 03/16/2014 3:30:41 PM PDT by tbpiper
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To: MUDDOG

Good question — what industrial potential does this discovery have?


23 posted on 03/16/2014 3:48:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
I might could tell you if I hadn't cancelled Scientific American in June 2009 when they named Obama one of their top ten Americans in science.

But it seems like almost all the industrial apps come out of quantum mechanics rather than relativity.

Though I expect it'll have a practical impact someday (if we avoid destroying ourselves in the meantime.)

24 posted on 03/16/2014 3:58:13 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: isom35

“I hope they announce there are Nazis living on the Moon”

Coke Zero just attained escape velocity coming out of both nostrils.


25 posted on 03/16/2014 4:09:59 PM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: lbryce
If gravitational waves are the Holy Grail of cosmology
is the big bang the Holy Hand Grenade?
26 posted on 03/16/2014 4:13:48 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: lbryce

Did they run their experiment while the Malaysian flight was in the air?


27 posted on 03/16/2014 4:15:22 PM PDT by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: cripplecreek

I believe Einstein once said something to the effect that for a theory to be well understood one should be able to explain it to their grandmother.

Nana, I... I.., ah...


28 posted on 03/16/2014 4:37:38 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: lbryce

Okay...what has their religion have to with anything?


29 posted on 03/16/2014 5:10:56 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: TexasGator

Newtonian physics is just an approximation of Relativity. At slow speeds, Einstein’s special relativity equations of motion are approximated by Newton’s equations. You don’t need Einstein’s equations for GPS, but they would make it more accurate. Relativity has been proven mathematically, and empirically, time and time again. Newton can get you to the moon, work on GPS, and is find in our every day life, but it gives the wrong answers at higher speeds. One day we will have a solar system positioning system and it will require relativity to be accurate.


30 posted on 03/16/2014 6:31:26 PM PDT by Do the math (Doug)
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To: TexasGator

Newtonian physics is just an approximation of Relativity. At slow speeds, Einstein’s special relativity equations of motion are approximated by Newton’s equations. You don’t need Einstein’s equations for GPS, but they would make it more accurate. Relativity has been proven mathematically, and empirically, time and time again. Newton can get you to the moon, work on GPS, and is find in our every day life, but it gives the wrong answers at higher speeds. One day we will have a solar system positioning system and it will require relativity to be accurate.


31 posted on 03/16/2014 6:32:11 PM PDT by Do the math (Doug)
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To: Do the math

find=fine ooops.


32 posted on 03/16/2014 6:33:16 PM PDT by Do the math (Doug)
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To: onedoug

Ping


33 posted on 03/16/2014 7:44:51 PM PDT by stylecouncilor
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To: lbryce

Just in time for the 100th anniversary of general relativity?


34 posted on 03/16/2014 7:56:55 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: MUDDOG; lbryce

Possibly they discovered Obama’s Birth Certificate?


35 posted on 03/16/2014 8:02:54 PM PDT by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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To: stylecouncilor

“...what she say.”


36 posted on 03/16/2014 8:21:16 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: lbryce
And I once long ago heard that the Nazi team working on their counter part were not Jews ... seems it was fortuitous that they had to abandon the project since they had not thought to include shielding in their reactor ...
37 posted on 03/17/2014 6:46:05 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: lbryce

Backing the Big Bang - In breakthrough, astronomers find evidence of speedy ‘cosmic inflation’ of universe - Harvard Gazette - March 17, 2014

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/03/backing-the-big-bang/


38 posted on 03/17/2014 11:47:45 PM PDT by deks
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