Einstein was right: Gravitational waves detected for first time in landmark discovery

[cliffordcooley]

You're missing my point intentionally.

 

[DanUK]

It tragic that this incredible science, being carried out for no other reason than to further our understanding of the universe, is being shot down by Internet Nobodies with less-than-zero real understanding of the topic.

Indeed.. that dude is so ignorant, probably best ignored. General relativity is a beautiful theory.

 

[cliffordcooley]

How is demanding facts only without the fairy tale ignorance? Never mind I don't even want to hear you BS reply. I think I will place you on ignore after that comment, so I won't even know if you reply.

 

[Bmztor]

Scientific theories allow us to make sense of the world. Without scientific theory, gravitational waves are meaningless.

 

[Mister_K]

You're missing my point intentionally.

I am not great at reading in between the lines, specially online on forums. Apologies.

 

[Tanstar]

Related to this topic. If you want "FACTS" either pickup maths/physics/cosmology and start grinding or travel billions of light years and victness the actual events. Since the former is out of question and the latter not possible at this time, this is all we have.

The latter would also require time travel

 

[Tanstar]

"The waves, which Reitze said stretched and compressed our planet like Jell-O, were observed on September 14, 2015."

If our planet was stretched and compressed like Jello, what were the visible affects?

 

[Tanstar]

Here is a much better article on it http://phys.org/news/2016-02-gravitational-years-einstein.html

That article says Einstein didn't believe in black holes, but they used is numbers to prove these gravitational waves were caused by black holes?

 

[DAOWAce]

I've heard these stories before. ...

I've heard posts like this before.

They tend to be from religious zealots who can't stand that their false beliefs are being proven false.

Are you one?

Personally, I don't give a damn about your answer, and will be investigating that ignore feature you mentioned.

 

[Technician]

"The waves, which Reitze said stretched and compressed our planet like Jell-O, were observed on September 14, 2015."

If our planet was stretched and compressed like Jello, what were the visible affects?

The observable effect was a laser being fired through an evacuated tube 2.5 miles long and reflecting back was pushed out of sync with its split beam firing down a second tube of identical length at right angles to the first showing that the length of one tube had changed relative to the other.
This occurred in 2 different locations at the same time in the same direction. The two sites are in Washington and Louisiana.

 

[cliffordcooley]

Personally, I don't give a damn about your answer, and will be investigating that ignore feature you mentioned.

That's fine by me if you want to believe this over history. And just so we are clear even if this was true it would not be proving anything religious false. If anything it would be proving false doctrine false. The irony in your statement only proves you are so desperately trying to prove God is not real. Otherwise you wouldn't have brought it up.

 

[captaincranky]

Most important discovery in modern science? Only if it leads to anti-gravity.

Perhaps but, detecting gravity is a far cry from learning to reverse it.

 

[batsdude]

Another multi billion dollar project to prove another theory that will absolutely have zero effect on anything improving in our lives, but does prove that research money is welcome to be poured down a drain. The fact that money CAN and IS poured down a drain is proof of gravitational waves in itself. It certainly doesn't pour up a drain.