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  Why do we care about gravitational waves? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-20 13:41 -0600
    Re: Why do we care about gravitational waves? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-02-20 20:29 +0000

#555030 — Why do we care about gravitational waves?

Why do we care about gravitational waves?
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrduBZ319XI


> On Feb 11, 2016 Scientists at LIGO announced that they had detected
> gravitational waves for the first time. In the press conference heard
> round the world, they showed the tell-tale waveforms indicating that
> huge event in which two black holes merged 1.3 billion lightyears
> away, had created waves that passed by the LIGO detectors and were
> finally heard. Einstein predicted the existence of these waves in his
> 1915 theory of general relativity. But it took a long time for us to
> come up with the technology to detect them. For one, we had to invent
> lasers! This video discusses why this discovery is important, what it
> means for astronomy, and what’s next. If you can’t tell, I’m very
> excited.


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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why do we care about gravitational waves?

The reality is that most people don't.


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Jim Pennino

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