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Old September 6th 20, 04:40 PM posted to sci.astro
Pentcho Valev
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Default LIGO Fakers Know No Limits

Let us consider LIGO's GW170817 fake again:

"On 8:41 AM EDT August 17, 2017, LIGO detected a new gravitational wave source, dubbed GW170817 to mark its discovery date. Just two seconds later NASA's Fermi satellite detected a weak pulse of gamma rays from the same location of the sky." https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2017-30

"Just two seconds later" and "the same location of the sky" implies that gravitational waves and optical signals traveled hand in hand: the same gravitationally deflected path, the same speed, the same Shapiro delay. The hand-in-hand implication is clearly absurd, but let us assume, for the sake of argument, that it is true. Then "gravitational waves and light travel together" is a great discovery - one of the greatest in the history of science. An immediate second Nobel Prize but... LIGO fakers are silent and will never again say anything like "just two seconds later" and "the same location of the sky". They even suggest that "August 2017" is the only and last time "knockout detections of electromagnetic radiation accompanying gravitational waves" will be seen:

"You might wonder why we haven't seen knockout detections of electromagnetic radiation accompanying gravitational waves since the August 2017 discovery. Unfortunately, we probably just got lucky that time. “It was nearby, well-localized in space, and had everything going for it,” Berger said." https://gizmodo.com/mystery-deepens-...ace-1837581646

"But one of LIGO's twin detectors was offline Thursday when the gravitational wave reached Earth, making it hard for astronomers to triangulate exactly where the signal was coming from. That sent astronomers racing to image as many galaxies as they could across a region covering one-quarter of the sky." http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-...n-star-merger/

"In this case, unlike many others, LIGO and Virgo were unable to significantly narrow down the direction in the sky that the waves came from. The researchers could say only that the waves were from a wide region that covers roughly one-quarter of the sky." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01377-2

"The first such observation, which took place in August of 2017, made history for being the first time that both gravitational waves and light were detected from the same cosmic event. The April 25 merger, by contrast, did not result in any light being detected." https://phys.org/news/2020-01-ligo-v...tron-star.html

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