Arouet
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Short video by Brian Greene explaining significance: will open up new ways of learning about the universe.
Jeez, Tim. Maybe ONE post that didn't mention Pam R?Interesting. In Pam Reynolds Art Bell interview she talked about seeing (she saw it her NDE) a breakthrough in "space time continuum" (whatever that is). Would any of the members on here who know something about astrophysics think there could be a connection ? Or am I talking bollocks
My daughter played the sound it makes for me on her iphone. LOL. She was like, "That's what it sounds like!." My daughters have a hard time understanding how someone who spends so much time thinking about the paranormal also is so skeptical of scientific announcements like this.
That was bicep 2, this is LIGO.Wasn't this a huge controversy awhile back, where they thought they discovered these waves but it was dust on the equipment?
That was bicep 2, this is LIGO.
Two completely different experiments.
My daughter played the sound it makes for me on her iphone. LOL. She was like, "That's what it sounds like!." My daughters have a hard time understanding how someone who spends so much time thinking about the paranormal also is so skeptical of scientific announcements like this.
From your posts? Not really.Isn't that obvious?
Yes, of course, but not because of bicep2, apples and oranges.My point is a bit of suspicion isn't unwarranted?
Jeez, Tim. Maybe ONE post that didn't mention Pam R?
From your posts? Not really.
You said "Wasn't this a huge controversy awhile back, where they thought they discovered these waves but it was dust on the equipment?"
As far as I understand, bicep 2 tries to detect remanents from gravitational waves by measuring polarization in the microwave background radiation.
BTW the dust was not on any equipment, it was interstellar dust they were talking about.
Ligo, on the other hand detects passing gravitational waves directly by measuring the actual deformation of the space time fabric.
Yes, of course, but not because of bicep2, apples and oranges.
The bicep story is not controversial, I believe that in the end all researchers agreed that there was no detection of gravitational waves, basically science at work.
I disagree, what happened with bicep2 probably made the LIGO researchers extra careful.The point would be there seems to a rush to announce scientific "certainties".
So I think my reasoning is sound that one can take this sort of thing with a grain of salt by looking at the embarrassment of BICEP2.
For 5 months, LIGO physicists struggled to keep a lid on their pupating discovery. Ordinarily, most team members would not have known whether the signal was real. LIGO regularly salts its data readings with secret false signals called “blind injections” to test the equipment and keep researchers on their toes. But on 14 September 2015, that blind injection system was not running. Physicists had only recently completed a 5-year, $205 million upgrade of the machines, and several systems—including the injection system—were still offline as the team wound up a preliminary “engineering run.” As a result, the whole collaboration knew that the observation was likely real. “I was convinced that day,” González says.
The point would be there seems to a rush to announce scientific "certainties".
So I think my reasoning is sound that one can take this sort of thing with a grain of salt by looking at the embarrassment of BICEP2.
So the wavelength is a fraction of atomic diameter?
I wonder what the difference in statistical significance is between the results from these interferometers and Radin's meditation experiments with interferometers.