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Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening?

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On Monday, January 7, 2019 at 11:22:01 AM UTC-6, RichD wrote:
> On January 6, Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog wrote:
> >> OK, more detectors provide greater localization, a la GPS.  
> >> And greater confidence levels, statistically. 
> >> But still, the apparatus resolution is down to a hydrogen 
> > > nucleus, astoundingly.  Will they ever improve on that? And 
> > > doesn't that set the ultimate limits on the observable?  
> > > Including, how far back into the past?
> > 
> > Improvements are being planned dependent on the various international
> > science budgets. Beyond the onboarding of additional detectors as the 
> > international collaboration expands, they include:
> > 
> > - Use of squeezed light techniques (already being demonstrated at GEO600)
> 
> What is?

GEO600 is a German development center that creates and tests new
technologies that ultimately wind up in LIGO/VIRGO
 
You can look up squeezed light online. The Wikipedia articles are not very
good for introducing the topic, unfortunately.
 
> > - Replacement of glass mirrors with silicon mirrors cooled to liquid
> >   nitrogen temperatures. This would necessitate replacement of the existing
> >   lasers with ones with a different wavelength to which silicon is
> >   transparent.
> 
> um, a transparent mirror sort of defeats the purpose - 

Light needs to both reflect off of and pass through partially reflective
mirrors in the Fabry-Perot optical arrangement.

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Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening? RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> - 2018-12-19 13:15 -0800
  Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening? Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-12-19 20:34 -0600
    Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening? Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2018-12-19 23:07 -0800
      Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening? RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> - 2018-12-27 23:41 -0800
        Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening? "David (Kronos Prime) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2018-12-28 05:32 -0800
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          Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening? "David (Kronos Prime) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2018-12-29 06:48 -0800
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          Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening? Steve BH <sbharris@gmail.com> - 2019-01-01 15:57 -0800
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              Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening? Steve BH <sbharris@gmail.com> - 2019-01-04 20:02 -0800
                Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening? maluwozniak@gmail.com - 2019-01-04 23:32 -0800
                Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening? Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2019-01-05 05:42 -0800
                Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening? maluwozniak@gmail.com - 2019-01-05 06:06 -0800
                Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening? Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2019-01-05 06:49 -0800
                Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening? maluwozniak@gmail.com - 2019-01-05 06:57 -0800
                Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening? Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2019-01-05 07:08 -0800
                Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening? maluwozniak@gmail.com - 2019-01-05 15:32 -0800
                Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening? Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2019-01-05 16:12 -0800
                Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening? maluwozniak@gmail.com - 2019-01-05 16:54 -0800
                Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening? mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2019-01-05 17:05 -0800
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                Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening? Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2019-01-06 02:34 -0800
                Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening? RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> - 2019-01-07 09:21 -0800
                Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening? Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2019-01-07 10:59 -0800
                Re: Black hole mergers suddenly started always happening? Volney <volney@volney.invalid> - 2019-01-05 09:16 -0500
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