Have Ripples In Spacetime Been Detected?

[MI2AZ]

A press conference scheduled for 10:30am ET Thursday has the scientific world on the edge of its seats. The rumor/expectation/prevailing hope: that 100 years after Albert Einstein predicted their existence, the hunt for gravitational waves has led to their direct detection.

The first question tends to be "what are gravitational waves?" Put most simply, they're ripples in spacetime produced when a massive object accelerates. Most reports suggest (as Einstein did) that you visualize a pebble thrown in a pond. Discovery paints it as such: "Should two black holes collide (for example), 'ripples' in spacetime will carry energy away from the impact site at the speed of light." Those ripples also carry info about their "cataclysmic origins."

 

[Greg T.]

Warp drive is on the way.

 

[livespive]

Come on Greg, you know it is already here. They are just giving it to us a piece at a time.

Warp drive is on the way.

 

[Greg T.]

Come on Greg, you know it is already here. They are just giving it to us a piece at a time.

This is not so far fetched as it may seem.

 

[livespive]

Yes I do believe you, that was why I said it. Doubt if I get to see it, but I would like to.
I am just waiting on the updated to the collider over there to see what happens next.

This is not so far fetched as it may seem.

 

[Greg T.]

We're absolutely on the verge of a huge breakthrough, unless the tech is already there and we're being kept in the dark. Thats more my train of thought.

 

[livespive]

Yeah, that's what I was getting at in my first post. Like they have said before, we have made to many "leaps" with certain things
for them not to be getting it from somewhere.

We're absolutely on the verge of a huge breakthrough, unless the tech is already there and we're being kept in the dark. Thats more my train of thought.

 

[Greg T.]

Yeah, that's what I was getting at in my first post. Like they have said before, we have made to many "leaps" with certain things
for them not to be getting it from somewhere.

I had an argument with a college professor friend about that. He's a hardcore Darwin believer and wants nothing to do with more advanced races or species. So I just simply asked him; Why did it take "man" 100,000+ years to get out of the bushes and caves, group into family units and adapt a central government, ... and then only about 100 years to go from horses, coal oil and witch doctors to space travel, nuclear power and organ transplants. His brilliant response was. "Technology breeds technology."

 

[livespive]

Not that quick, not without help.

I had an argument with a college professor friend about that. He's a hardcore Darwin believer and wants nothing to do with more advanced races or species. So I just simply asked him; Why did it take "man" 100,000+ years to get out of the bushes and caves, group into family units and adapt a central government, ... and then only about 100 years to go from horses, coal oil and witch doctors to space travel, nuclear power and organ transplants. His brilliant response was. "Technology breeds technology."

 

[Djarum300]

If one reads it fast it enought......Have Nipples in Spacetime been Erected.

 

[Good Times Good Times]

If one reads it fast it enought......Have Nipples in Spacetime been Erected.

Nips that are light years across.

 

[livespive]

Depends on what galaxy your mind is in

If one reads it fast it enought......Have Nipples in Spacetime been Erected.

 

[9andaWiggle]

If one reads it fast it enought......Have Nipples in Spacetime been Erected.

 

[Djarum300]

Lmbo!

 

[WAMO]

HEY DJ. SHOULDNT THAT BE LMNO!

 

[MI2AZ]

If one reads it fast it enought......Have Nipples in Spacetime been Erected.

Well, that's wrong, but I like the way you think.