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‘No evidence for or against gravitational waves’: Big Bang 'ripples' too weak to be significant.
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| 06/02/2014
| RON COWEN
Posted on 06/02/2014 10:34:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
“All we are is dust in the wind”
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posted on
06/02/2014 10:38:42 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: DannyTN
To: SeekAndFind
All we are is dust in the wind.
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posted on
06/02/2014 10:39:43 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
06/02/2014 10:40:05 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: UCANSEE2
Seriously though, The main reason for postulating gravitational waves is that Einstein was staunchly against the idea of nonlocal interactions, i.e., spooky actions at a distance as he called them. He insisted that nothing can move faster than the speed of light, including gravity and EM waves.
But now we realize that Einstein was wrong about the spookiness of quantum physics.
To: SeekAndFind
The Scientific Method once again proves itself.
There is no other area of knowledge that polices itself as rigorously as Science.
This is a null value determination. But a really good catch.
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posted on
06/02/2014 10:45:48 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(AGW "Scientific method:" Draw your lines first, then plot your points)
To: SeekAndFind
Ahhh yes. The Big bang. When there was nothing and then it blew up.
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posted on
06/02/2014 10:45:57 AM PDT
by
ruesrose
(The Anchor Holds)
To: dfwgator
LOL, that’s great. I haven’t seen that one.
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posted on
06/02/2014 10:50:12 AM PDT
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DannyTN
To: SeekAndFind
And I thought that this was settled science and that the evidence of primordial gravitational waves was incontrovertible and accepted by 97% of physicists.
To: ruesrose
Nothing comes from nothing.
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posted on
06/02/2014 11:00:59 AM PDT
by
HandyDandy
(Started out with Burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff....)
To: House Atreides
Not that I'd heard. Maybe you're thinking of the microwave background radiation?
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posted on
06/02/2014 11:01:09 AM PDT
by
ConservingFreedom
(A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
To: freedumb2003
Science polices itself, but it does suffer from too much group think and not enough scientific testing which results in slowing down scientific progress and the embrace of invalid hypotheses. Too often new scientific ideas have to wait an entire generation before they will be adequately investigated and adopted.
We've seen with global warming the political influence on science. And the willingness of too many scientists to get on board and promote global warming without criticallly examining the data.
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posted on
06/02/2014 11:05:08 AM PDT
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DannyTN
To: ruesrose
And God said, "let there be light," and there was light.
At least one scientist proposes a modification to Einstein's theory of gravity, whereby the beginning was more of a big "push" than explosion. And he's not the only scientist who supposes the sum total energy (including the energy represented by matter) is exactly zero.
No matter how you decide to look at it, the universe is a vast and intriguing place.
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06/02/2014 11:07:52 AM PDT
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Cboldt
To: HandyDandy
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06/02/2014 11:09:49 AM PDT
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Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: All
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06/02/2014 11:11:37 AM PDT
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onyx
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To: SeekAndFind
According to the article, within six months there will be much better data for dust and CMB light that could settle the issue. It’s been over 13 billion years. A few more months won’t hurt.
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posted on
06/02/2014 11:12:51 AM PDT
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Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: ruesrose
The Big bang. When there was nothing and then it blew up. My understanding, which could be wrong, is that a vacuum would have to exist. I don't know about the vacuum back then, but the vacuum we have today is much more than nothing.
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posted on
06/02/2014 11:18:30 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
06/02/2014 11:20:24 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: HandyDandy
Something comes from nothing.
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posted on
06/02/2014 11:23:26 AM PDT
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mlo
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