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On Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 10:07:38 AM UTC-7, Pentcho Valev wrote:
> http://www.techinsider.io/kavli-prize-winners-2016-6
>  "Nine scientists just won an award that's worth more than a Nobel Prize, 
> earning a cool $1 million for their cutting-edge research. Called the 
> Kavli Prize, these lofty awards... [...] The three winners in astrophysics 
> this year were Ronald Drever, Kip Thorne, and Rainer Weiss. The trio won 
> for detecting the ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves — 
> arguably the most remarkable scientific achievement of the year, if not 
> the past 100 years. "This detection has, in a single stroke and for the 
> first time, validated Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity for very 
> strong fields..."
>
> http://news.mit.edu/2016/rainer-weiss-awarded-shaw-prize-astronomy-0601
>  "Weiss will share the $1.2 million prize with Kip Thorne, Caltech’s 
> Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, emeritus; and Ronald 
> Drever, emeritus professor of physics at Caltech. Together, they are cited 
> by the Shaw Foundation “for conceiving and designing the Laser 
> Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), whose recent direct 
> detection of gravitational waves opens a new window..."
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/science/ligo-gravitational-wave-breakthrough-prize-yuri-milner.html
>  "LIGO Gravitational Wave Researchers to Divide $3 Million. The three 
> ringleaders of the gravitational-wave experiment, known as LIGO, Ronald P. 
> Drever and Kip. S. Thorne of the California Institute of Technology, and 
> Rainer Weiss of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will split $1 
> million. The other $2 million will be split among 1,012 scientists who 
> were authors of the article in Physical Review Letters, or who made major 
> contributions to the study of gravitational waves."
>
> http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-05/iau-ro2050416.php
>  "In addition to a cash award of $500 000, to be shared equally between 
> Drever, Thorne and Weiss, each of the three will receive a gold medal and 
> a citation that reads: The Gruber Foundation proudly presents the 2016 
> Cosmology Prize to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, Ronald Drever, and the entire 
> LIGO team for pursuing a vision to observe the universe in gravitational 
> waves, leading to a first detection that emanated from the collision of 
> two black holes."
>
> Now Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Ronald Drever are wating for the Nobel 
> prize but hope to be given a few more millions in the meantime:
>
> http://motls.blogspot.bg/2016/02/ligo-journal-servers-behind-scenes.html
>  " On September 9th, the LIGO folks were already convinced that they would 
> discover the waves soon. Some of them were thinking what they would buy 
> for the Nobel prize and all of them had to make an online vote about the 
> journal where the discovery should be published. It has to be Physical 
> Review Letters because PRL (published by the APS) is the best journal for 
> the Nobel-prize-caliber papers, the LIGO members decided. Five days later, 
> Advanced LIGO made the discovery. Four more days later, as you know, they 
> officially started Advanced LIGO. ;-) "
>
> Pentcho Valev

|Poor you.

Gobbledygook.

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Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-02 10:06 -0700
  Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2016-06-02 10:35 -0700
    Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2016-06-02 20:43 +0200
  Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-02 10:48 -0700
    Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2016-06-02 12:23 -0700
  Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-06-02 13:50 -0700
    Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner Hägar <hsahm@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-04 13:23 -0700
      Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-06-07 21:05 +0200
        Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner lal_truckee <lal_truckee@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-07 12:46 -0700
          Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-06-07 22:14 +0200
        Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-06-08 01:28 -0700
          Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner je suis charly <charlie-gordon1492@no.where> - 2016-06-08 01:46 -0700
            Einstein–Szilárd letter (was: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-06-08 21:09 +0200
              Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-06-08 12:46 -0700
          Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-06-08 09:25 -0700
            Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-06-08 10:19 -0700
  Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-06-02 23:16 -0700
  Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-04 05:50 -0700
    Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-06-04 10:49 -0700
    Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2016-06-04 10:58 -0700
      Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2016-06-04 14:31 -0500
        Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-04 13:14 -0700
          Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2016-06-04 13:58 -0700

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