Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy Begins
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The team operating LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) have done it. I did not think that we would detect gravitational waves myself until we had a space-based instrument in place, but I was wrong! A new way of observing the universe has begun. In addition to the visible spectrum, radio waves (and other electromagnetic wavelengths) and neutrino telescopes, we now have gravitational waves. The 'telescopes' do look a bit different and are much bigger, but they will open up areas of the universe for our study that are invisible with other means. The telescopes needs to be able to detect a change in the relative length of their 'arms' at one part in a billion trillion. This is equal to measuring a movement of less than the size of an atom - if the detector itself was the size of the Earth! What Grav telecopes can be used for; In particular, pulsars and black hole observation, and the formation of super-massive black holes and some of the events which happened prior to recombination can now be studied. Cosmology - my area of interest - will progress more rapidly now. Well done to the team at LIGO, and special congratulations to the Australian team including Australian National University and the University of South Australia and the University of Adelaide whose technical contribution was very significant to the success in the detection of gravitational waves. The two coalescing black holes were stellar mass (the largest ever found) at 29 solar masses and 36 solar masses. The resulting black hole is estimated to be 62 solar masses, and a spin of 0.67. The distance to the coalescing black holes is estimated at 1.336 billion light years, and in the direction of the Magellanic clouds, (near the south celestial pole). The estimated mass lost to gravitational wave production is 6 x 10^30 kg. Paper; Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger; http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102
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Abdulah420 had it laying around it was more far descriptive than that went looking for it a while ago may havr tossed it in a clean up. It was sent to the brother of a work colleague a Mathematician named Edgar at UCLA as an open paper as the Math was well beyond me since all if the things discussed in the paper are now mainstream science I did pretty well. It explained how tides work by the oceans attempting to move into the null between gravity fields the notion that the moon was pulling it was simply ridiculous the moon would have crashed into the earth long ago. It explained how moons are captured by the same method compatible fields at the correct distance cancell each other it also explains how the moon of Mars crashed into it I believe the cause was a poor capture and a loss if rotational velocity by Mars I would like someone to check the gouge in the side of Mars in relation to its gravitational field this explains the loss of its water and why there must be aquifers (frozen?) below the surface still held by the remaining gravity
Red shift was observational error at the outer edge of the Universe gravity is weaker due to expansion meaning if there is nothing ahead to slow an approaching object down IT MUST ACCELERATE. Gravity can only exist when sufficient mass has accumulated explaining why small objects have no field of their own and why GRAVITY IS SO WEAK. The logical conclusion is that as the Universe expands Gravity at the extreme edges becomes weaker allowing 2 effects the object with no constraining Gravitational fields will either disintergrate but MOST LIKELY BECOME SO WEAK THE COLLECTIVE GRAVITY BEHIND WILL EVENTUALLY PULL IT BACK. The logical conclusion of this is the UNIVERSE PULSES by continual expansion and collapse. Seems this is now mainstream thinking also.. Black holes the ABSOLUTE NONSENSE CALLED SINGULARITY more lazy science. Yes matter is sucked in but not endlessly I have been postulating what happens 1 matter is crushed some particles are stripped and lost 2 its crushed some new particles are added creating new forms of matter that we dont recognize creating the illusion of endless compression. And does this mean eventually all matter will be consumed leaving the Universe completely spent.
TIME the error of granting a unit of measure physical properties! Time is a theoretical construct like weoght a unit of measure can be anything you want TIME is based largely on observations of the moon and given a 24 hour standard why not 50 hours just as reasonable. TIME is the plus in 2+2 it is used to obtain a result TIME has no physical properties its just more lazy science need a result invent a new property for time. The space time continuium where time and space warp making objects rotste around each other absolutely laughable my theory of interacting gravity fields at the right strength producing an adequate null field explains perfectly how and why moons are captured and why some collide or escape SPACE TIME DOES NOT -
So, they can't detect the waves from ongoing oscillation, of these supposed black holes, but only the coalescing of the two?
I'm skeptical about this, couldn't many things cause that anomaly to occur in our equipment, like some electromagnetic source? -
The curves have an aspect of growth on the complex plane. I wonder if these things also do. Those curves also move back to the origin after they get to the border. I doubt we could ever see these waves if they do that.
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Those curves have an aspect of growth on the complex plane. I wonder if these things also do.
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Very interesting!
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As have got older I understand now a lot of the mainstream science i was taught as fact is often faith based, lately I am persuaded by your fellow countryman Stephen J Crothers, black holes as described by Einstein cannot exist in this model of the Universe and so the black holes mentioned must have another explanation not yet discovered.
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Hahahaha, what a clown. Typical, eh? Scientistic sensationalism. Not eeven entertaining.
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Sorry for the negative feedback.
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Gravity, sir, is an effect of charge. Not the warping of time-ROLF-space-ROLF some more. -
This as factual as man-made global warming- not very factual. VERY theoretical.
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How do they know the source of what they just observed? i mean how do they know where the gravitational wave came from?
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+1000Frolly - How was he in Melbourne?
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That is just bad ass, Einstein justified again.
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Al Gore says those waves are caused by climate change, not black holes or neutron stars.
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This is disappointing. 1000frolly, you'll probably find many of your viewers follow your climate work because it ties into the electric universe understanding of an electric sun/earth connection driving climate. Those of us who do, understand that what science thinks are gravity waves (because they can't let go of the misconception that gravity shapes the universe) are actually an electromagnetic phenomenon called EM retardation, first written about decades ago by Oleg D Jefimenko, and easily reproducible in a lab with a pair of magnets.... I'm surprised you're still on to gravity band wagon. Can you not see the obvious? We made a misstep a century ago when we elevated Einstein over Tesla, and now we've come all the way from a flat earth, to flat space..... Will those gravity waves keep going until they fall off the edge of the universe?
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The more ways we have to look at the universe, the better we can understand it.
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Also, they have two widely separated facilities to remove the effects of occasional earthquakes.
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Funny:) They are so far behind that this is irrelevant. Wayne McMichael told us how the universe works in 1998 with Infinite Wave Theory. These morons are not even close. They still have their noses up against the bill board trying to see what it says:) They still think there was a big bang:)
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BS gravitational waves! Frolly1000 any more stories about unicorns and fairy dust?
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