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A 'magical' space-time ripple that wasn't believed, at first
A 'magical' space-time ripple that wasn't believed, at first
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-magical...-believed.html "It is seared in my brain," said Shoemaker, a top scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and head of the Advanced LIGO Project, an international effort to uncover evidence of gravitational waves. Such waves are a measure of strain in space, an effect of the motion of large masses that stretches the fabric of space-time—a way of viewing space and time as a single, interweaved continuum. The "chirp," as Shoemaker described the long-awaited wave, had arrived while he was asleep. But since the data analysis works in quasi-real-time, scientists watching the data stream early in the work day in Europe saw it immediately. Two black holes spiraling into each other became a single black hole, and the joining of these two giants curved the fabric of space-time around them, ever so briefly. "When the signal finally got to the Earth on September 14 we knew within three minutes that our instruments had seen something really different," said Shoemaker. -- sci.physics is an unmoderated newsgroup dedicated to the discussion of physics, news from the physics community, and physics-related social issues. |
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A 'magical' space-time ripple that wasn't believed, at first
On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 9:56:00 PM UTC, Sam Wormley wrote:
Such waves are a measure of strain in space, an effect of the motion of large masses that stretches the fabric of space-time--a way of viewing space and time as a single, interweaved continuum. This is based on a fictional 19th century science fiction novel via Newton's absolute/relative time,space and motion 'definitions' - "'Really this is what is meant by the Fourth Dimension, though some people who talk about the Fourth Dimension do not know they mean it. It is only another way of looking at Time. There is no difference between time and any of the three dimensions of space" The Time Machine, 1898 http://www.bartleby.com/1000/1.html -- sci.physics is an unmoderated newsgroup dedicated to the discussion of physics, news from the physics community, and physics-related social issues. Going in the opposite direction is a real life situation in Society turned into a dystopian novel - "Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as "the truth" exists. [...] The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past. If the Leader says of such and such an event, "It never happened"--well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five--well, two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs [...]" Orwell The empirical cult can manufacture history to suit whatever contemporary story is necessary and today is no different. The fact that they dumped 'gravitational waves' on the originator of relativity to continue a meaningless narrative is incidental to the overall agenda of empiricism. Society can't support the strain of nonsense coming from theorists as it weakens the standards to the point where generational differences are beginning to show themselves. You have an entire group here showing autistic tendencies in the ability,dubious though it may be, to override the most basic astronomical facts,observations and experiences for ideologies that were created centuries ago. |
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