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Re: LIGO

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On 6/18/2016 12:04 PM, Ross A. Finlayson wrote:
> On Saturday, June 18, 2016 at 8:37:32 AM UTC-7, Michael Moroney wrote:
>> In the LIGO papers, I see phrases such as this:
>>
>> "The results presented here are restricted to BBH systems with total
>> masses less than 100M Searches for more massive black holes, compact
>> binary systems containing neutron stars and unmodeled transient signals
>> will be reported elsewhere."
>>
>> Do they still have something up their sleeves?
>
> There's an array of other gravitational wave detectors
> of various forms and construction.

But not all of them are sensitive to the same signal profiles. So some 
of them would not be able to detect these. Can you state which ones you 
think should be able to detect these signals and why?

>
> All of them should corroborate each event.  A gravitational
> wave should be detected by each observer.
>
> So, besides waiting for the other LIGO's to come online,
> the cryogenic Weber bars and other more economical means
> should be used to corroborate results (of the more
> sensitive LIGO).
>
>
>
> Basically in contrast to optical (or radio) astronomy, the
> field-of-view is time-series data.
>
>
>
> Finally there's a notion that the event propagates in
> the tachyonic and they maybe should be looking in the
> exact opposite direction, for actual evidence of an
> appropriate object as would match the theories of the
> formation of events, that here yet are (finely-tuned)
> speculation.
>
>


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LIGO moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-06-15 21:10 +0000
  Re: LIGO moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-06-16 13:18 +0000
    Re: LIGO Steven Carlip <carlip@physics.ucdavis.edu> - 2016-06-18 10:13 +0200
      Re: LIGO Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-06-18 11:06 +0200
        Re: LIGO Steven Carlip <carlip@physics.ucdavis.edu> - 2016-06-21 23:20 -0700
          Re: LIGO Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-06-25 00:09 +0200
  Re: LIGO moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-06-18 15:36 +0000
    Re: LIGO "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 10:04 -0700
      Re: LIGO Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-06-20 14:41 -0500
        Re: LIGO "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-06-20 22:07 -0700
          Re: LIGO Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-06-21 08:30 -0500

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