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Re: LIGO

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On 6/21/2016 12:07 AM, Ross A. Finlayson wrote:
> Yes, they should all exactly corroborate the gravitational
> wave event, you can't hide a gravitational wave (without
> having invented the "gravitational lens" as it were).

Not all detectors are sensitive to the same signals. It's not like the 
gravitational wave is missing the detector. It's that some detectors 
will not be able to pick up those waves.

>
> Because gravity is omnipresent, the propagation of a
> gravitational wave is apparent to all observers.
>
> The earlier systems pick up plenty of gravitational
> waves, now they should all agree.
>
> Also, besides the receipt timing, there is still that
> the amplitude of the waves should also be coinciding
> and corroborating the event(s).
>
>
> It is unscientific and galling for ALIGO to let the
> media say now that it is "black holes colliding" when
> there hasn't been a falsifiable experiment (observation
> via other means).

Well, I agree with you that independent verification of the source would 
be best.

>
> It is similar that of dark matter, that which doesn't
> exist, though here it may be so that gravitational waves
> are as of the order of the collision of stellar-scale
> objects, because the stellar observatory as experiment
> is only courtesy sampling and happenstance and not
> subject to ad hoc arrangement of the medium, for then
> here to have a replete (and economical) arrangement of
> configuration and energy to help show what is (and what
> isn't) the cosmological scale noise of stellar-scale
> collisions.


-- 
Odd Bodkin --- maker of fine toys, tools, tables

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