Monday, January 11, 2016

Have Gravitational Waves Finally Been Detected?

Binary stars may generate gravitational waves. R. Hurt - Caltech/JPL

Popular Science: Physicist Tweets Rumour That Gravitational Waves May Have Finally Been Detected

If true, the discovery would support one of Einstein's major predicitons.

In September, the Caltech theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss tweeted:


The folks on the LIGO experiment neither confirmed nor denied the rumor, and in Krauss's rumor-mongering raised hackles in the astrophysics community.

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CSN Editor: Waiting for the official announcement.

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