This is cosmic, man, effing cosmic! So if Gravity is the weak force, and
produces detectable waves, then waves produced by the stronger forced must,
like, create reality, man. Ohhhh! Exciting!
--Bob, who really is somewhat awed by this vindication of Einstein, never mind
Albert's astonishing ability to even think this stuff up.
Sent from my iPhone 6s Plus. This is a perfect mobile device. Any perceived
errors in spelling, grammar, or logic are figments of your imagination.
> On Feb 11, 2016, at 6:31 PM, Mike Gordon via olympus
> <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Probably most have seen this, but Einstein's predictions with GRelativity
> from 1916 have been proven correct. This is undoubtedly as momentous as the
> discovery of the Higg's boson.
>
> The LIGO detectors can detect perturbations as small as 1/10000 the width of
> a proton with the interferometers. Fortunately two black holes decided to
> cooperate at a good time
> and produced an unmistakable signature offset by .007sec just the distance at
> light speed between the two detectors. The energy radiated was
> equivalent to 3 solar masses and the signature is precisely as predicted by
> Einstein. Einstein a bit later (1918) derived the quadrupole formula for
> gravitational radiation by solving the
> linearized field equations. Perhaps someone can use this to help unite
> gravity with the other forces.
>
> http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/gravitational-waves-einstein-s-ripples-spacetime-spotted-first-time
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