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Brace yourselves for gravitational waves
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RE: Brace yourselves for gravitational waves
February 10, 2016 at 3:06 am
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RE: Brace yourselves for gravitational waves
February 10, 2016 at 3:08 am
Wait... if I walk off the edge of the earth, what is pulling me down? What am I falling towards?

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RE: Brace yourselves for gravitational waves
February 10, 2016 at 3:55 am
(February 10, 2016 at 12:19 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Going serious, reluctantly, I'm assuming they've simulated the expected signal emitted by 2 BHs spiraling towards their mutual doom and have managed to detect a signal rather similar to that.

I wonder if the 2 masses were substantially different from each other if that might be discerned? I'm trying to imagine the swirly wibbly wobbly waveform from that and am getting sufficiently dizzy as to think a meclazine tab might be called for . . .

Rumour has it that the observation is compatible with 29 and 36 solar masses respectively, and that a whopping 3 solar masses worth of energy was radiated away via gravity.
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RE: Brace yourselves for gravitational waves
February 10, 2016 at 4:30 am
(February 10, 2016 at 3:55 am)Alex K Wrote:
(February 10, 2016 at 12:19 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Going serious, reluctantly, I'm assuming they've simulated the expected signal emitted by 2 BHs spiraling towards their mutual doom and have managed to detect a signal rather similar to that.

I wonder if the 2 masses were substantially different from each other if that might be discerned?  I'm trying to imagine the swirly wibbly wobbly waveform from that and am getting sufficiently dizzy as to think a meclazine tab might be called for . . .

Rumour has it that the observation is compatible with 29 and 36 solar masses respectively, and that a whopping 3 solar masses worth of energy was radiated away via gravity.

That's a big boom. :p
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RE: Brace yourselves for gravitational waves
February 10, 2016 at 5:03 am
The set fell out of Losty's ring ??
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RE: Brace yourselves for gravitational waves
February 10, 2016 at 6:41 am
(February 9, 2016 at 4:16 pm)Alex K Wrote:
(February 9, 2016 at 3:54 pm)robvalue Wrote: We're all gonna die Panic

How did they manage to create black holes in a lab?

The di'nt. They built these things:

[Image: ligo.jpg]

which are super-precise laser interferometers which can measure changes in length of their 4km arms far shorter than a proton.
Then they waited until they would see a signal from two black holes merging somewhere in the galaxy. Gravitational waves coming from such events change the metric of spacetime, and therefore cause tiny variations of the relative lengths of the two arms you see in the picture. Those are then picked up where the two laser beams meet.

That's just so remarkable.  Fascinating.
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RE: Brace yourselves for gravitational waves
February 10, 2016 at 6:50 am
So on to practical applications of all this technology.

How long before we can surf gravitational waves?
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RE: Brace yourselves for gravitational waves
February 10, 2016 at 6:54 am
I'm thinking surfing a gravitational wave at the speed of light might be a little more thrill than you can stand
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RE: Brace yourselves for gravitational waves
February 10, 2016 at 7:11 am
(February 10, 2016 at 6:50 am)Mathilda Wrote: So on to practical applications of all this technology.

How long before we can surf gravitational waves?

They are all around you! What's keeping you, grab a board! You haven't lived until you've felt the power of an entire star being annihilated into energy.
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RE: Brace yourselves for gravitational waves
February 11, 2016 at 10:47 am
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