Re: [OM] Gravitationals waves--yes they do exist and so do Black holes

[Mike Gordon via olympus]

<<<I'm skeptical that such precision is measurable.

Sure it is measurable.  Physicists are  born skeptics and thus extremely 
cautious.  This data has been checked and rechecked innumerable times.  They 
even inject false signals on occasion t keep the teams on their toes.
They have already demonstrated consistent  precision to 10 **-20 meter range.  
Wait until the next upgrade when the improved precision will likely lead to 
detecting events averaging weekly.
The arms they shoot the lasers down are 4km in a vacuum for a reason.  The 
chance of  false identical signals being detected with the perfect signature of 
the black hole event both in WA and LA LIGO
facilities offset by the 0.007 sec has got to be close  to zero.  


https://dcc.ligo.org/public/0008/G1000029/001/G1000029-v1_UNCC-LIGO-talk.pdf

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/faq


Relatively precise, Mike


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