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Re: LIGO Conspirators: Wave or Money Catchers?

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On 2/3/2017 9:11 AM, john wrote:
> Odd
> No, you do not get to turn it around.
> YOU justify your faith in grav waves.
>
> How do they work?
>

Alright. Gravitational waves work the way ALL waves work.
There are physical laws that pertain to a physical system that take a 
particular mathematical form called a wave equation. What we know about 
physical systems that have this feature is that the solutions of the 
equation exhibit themselves as behaviors of the system. That is, since a 
traveling wave is a solution of the wave equation, then traveling waves 
appear physically in the system.

This is the connection between physics and mathematics and why 
mathematics provides insight to how physical systems will behave.

Please notice that this does not mean that mathematics is driving the 
explanation of how it works. What is driving the explanation of how it 
works are the laws of physics. But it's the FORM of the laws of physics 
that determines whether waves happen or not.

I fully expect you to tell me that this does not meet your expectations. 
I expect you to claim that an explanation of how something works means 
taking it apart and showing all the parts inside and how they move and 
intermesh. But John, this just is not true. That's not how physics 
explains how things work, whether you like it or not.

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

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Re: LIGO Conspirators: Wave or Money Catchers? edprochak@gmail.com - 2017-02-02 10:07 -0800
  Re: LIGO Conspirators: Wave or Money Catchers? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-02-02 12:20 -0600
    Re: LIGO Conspirators: Wave or Money Catchers? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2017-02-03 05:59 -0800
      Re: LIGO Conspirators: Wave or Money Catchers? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-02-03 08:20 -0600
        Re: LIGO Conspirators: Wave or Money Catchers? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2017-02-03 06:57 -0800
          Re: LIGO Conspirators: Wave or Money Catchers? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-02-03 08:59 -0600
            Re: LIGO Conspirators: Wave or Money Catchers? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2017-02-03 07:11 -0800
              Re: LIGO Conspirators: Wave or Money Catchers? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-02-03 09:37 -0600
                Re: LIGO Conspirators: Wave or Money Catchers? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2017-02-03 07:40 -0800
                Re: LIGO Conspirators: Wave or Money Catchers? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-02-03 09:44 -0600
                Re: LIGO Conspirators: Wave or Money Catchers? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-02-03 10:04 -0600
                Re: LIGO Conspirators: Wave or Money Catchers? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2017-02-07 09:15 -0800
                Re: LIGO Conspirators: Wave or Money Catchers? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-02-07 11:22 -0600

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