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This is a big deal | The experiment confirms the last piece of Einstein’s general theory of relativity

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  This is a big deal | The experiment confirms the last piece of Einstein’s general theory of relativity Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-11 15:17 -0600
    Re: This is a big deal | The experiment confirms the last piece of Einstein’s general theory of relativity jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-02-11 22:06 +0000

#552355 — This is a big deal | The experiment confirms the last piece of Einstein’s general theory of relativity

The experiment confirms the last piece of Einstein’s general theory of 
relativity
> http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/ligo-sees-gravitational-waves


> The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or
> LIGO, picked up signatures of space stretching and warping as the
> black holes released energy in the form of gravitational waves 1.3
> billion years ago. The black holes, 29 and 36 times the mass of the
> sun and 150 kilometers in diameter, merged to form a larger black
> hole with 62 solar masses, releasing the rest of the energy in
> gravitational waves that sped towards Earth when multicellular life
> there was just developing.
>
> The waves from the black hole merger were brief, lasting mere
> milliseconds. But the output from that collision was “50 times
> greater than all the power put out by all the stars in the universe
> put together,” says Kip Thorne, professor of physics at Caltech.
>
> The signal arrived during an engineering test on Sept. 14 last year,
> a few days before the formal start of Advanced LIGO’s first observing
> run, which lasted from Sept. 18 until mid-January.


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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> The experiment confirms the last piece of Einstein?s general theory of 
> relativity

Yet another cut and paste of the same basic information.


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