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"Really when you think about it The Earth is just an enormous anal bead being slowly inserted into a giant space arse."
Isn't that what professor Brian Cox said in his last TV series? |
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"Really when you think about it The Earth is just an enormous anal bead being slowly inserted into a giant space arse.
Isn't that what professor Brian Cox said in his last TV series? "
lol pretty much. |
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Ok, so have announced that they have observed gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of spacetime, in a discovery that could completely change our understanding of the universe.
Gravitational waves were first predicted by Einstein 100 years ago, but have never been directly observed. This is a vindication of Einstein’s theory.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35524440 |
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"Should we wave back? It sounds rude not to  "
Woohee? Hellooo? * Waves at the gravitational waves.
See, that has so changed my perception of this world.
If I eat a really big curry, will that make my wave bigger? |
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"Scientists become so animated when they are excited,,,,,
I just seen one undo the top button on his shirt,,,  "
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Always makes me laugh listening to the absolute fever they whip themselves into over something massive like this... Then they played the sound of it back on the radio... Errr that's a black and decker drill with the bushes nearly gone! |
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"Wasn't Einstein the bright lad!
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Yes but know we are left with question
Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath
the chicken?  |
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"Wasn't Einstein the bright lad!
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Yes but know we are left with question
Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath
the chicken? "
Or did the chicken use a gravitational anomaly, travel through subspace and bypas the actual road altogether? |
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"Ok, so have announced that they have observed gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of spacetime, in a discovery that could completely change our understanding of the universe.
Gravitational waves were first predicted by Einstein 100 years ago, but have never been directly observed. This is a vindication of Einstein’s theory.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35524440"
  its actually really exciting news . I have been following the story all day |
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"Wasn't Einstein the bright lad!
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Yes but know we are left with question
Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath
the chicken?
Or did the chicken use a gravitational anomaly, travel through subspace and bypas the actual road altogether?"
Beats me.....  |
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And yet we are still arguing over fucking irrelevant stuff like who gets to burn the most decomposed jurassic plankton and whose homophobic misogynist living on a cloud is better than another.
Perspective time maybe? |
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"It sounds great, but I'm not sure what real difference it shall make to human kind  "
We can really start to understand how things are constructed and how energy is transferred across the universe in fundamentally more powerful and subtle ways than we ever had the ability to before.
There really s a long way to go before the benefits are tangible but it s a huge huge leap forward. |
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I think a large multiple collision of these waves hit me as I stood upon the scales earlier. And I didn't feel any benefit in the time continuum - I probably looked older, not younger, afterwards. |
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And yet we are still arguing over fucking irrelevant stuff like who gets to burn the most decomposed jurassic plankton and whose homophobic misogynist living on a cloud is better than another.
Perspective time maybe?"
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Yeah we just need perspective to see the perspective!.
There's a reason why nearly all religions deny science, it proves them as the charlatans they always were.
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And yet we are still arguing over fucking irrelevant stuff like who gets to burn the most decomposed jurassic plankton and whose homophobic misogynist living on a cloud is better than another.
Perspective time maybe?.
Yeah we just need perspective to see the perspective!.
There's a reason why nearly all religions deny science, it proves them as the charlatans they always were.
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I am yet to hear the reaction of the major religions to the discovery of gravitational waves. I suspect it might be something along the lines of, "Oh, so there are gravitational waves." |
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"Yes, but does anybody know why it's so important?"
It confirms Einstein's theory of relativity and we can look back in time even further than we could before. We have the opportunity to observe black holes colliding and we can observe the universe in entirely new ways.
No, me neither |
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"Yes, but does anybody know why it's so important?
It confirms Einstein's theory of relativity and we can look back in time even further than we could before. We have the opportunity to observe black holes colliding and we can observe the universe in entirely new ways.
No, me neither "
Basically this^.
It's like asking why electromagnetic waves were important the day after discovering them. Lol. No one knew what they could be used for back then.
Same with these. They prove a theory (and the only reason so many were sceptical before is because they were so tiny so couldn't be detected. Like 10 to the power -21 tiny. Lol).
I'm excited about their use as mentioned above, but what else we could discover off the back of them, in the future. |
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"Ok, so have announced that they have observed gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of spacetime, in a discovery that could completely change our understanding of the universe.
Gravitational waves were first predicted by Einstein 100 years ago, but have never been directly observed. This is a vindication of Einstein’s theory.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35524440"
^ As stated...
But why it is soooooo important?
That's the bit that eludes me |
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"Apparently, the application of quantum theory to the prediction of the doppler effect will determine when my TNT parcel will arrive."
Yea but they'll still leave it on your door step in full view of the road  |
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"Apparently, the application of quantum theory to the prediction of the doppler effect will determine when my TNT parcel will arrive.
Yea but they'll still leave it on your door step in full view of the road "
Just looked....they did! |
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"Ok, so have announced that they have observed gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of spacetime, in a discovery that could completely change our understanding of the universe.
Gravitational waves were first predicted by Einstein 100 years ago, but have never been directly observed. This is a vindication of Einstein’s theory.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35524440
^ As stated...
But why it is soooooo important?
That's the bit that eludes me"
Because gravitational waves still bear ( theoretically) the " imprint " of the " Big Bang " the moment the universe was created; so we may be able to determine much more about that moment; which may open up even better insights into physics.
Which in turn, may advance many other things....
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"Ok, so have announced that they have observed gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of spacetime, in a discovery that could completely change our understanding of the universe.
Gravitational waves were first predicted by Einstein 100 years ago, but have never been directly observed. This is a vindication of Einstein’s theory.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35524440
^ As stated...
But why it is soooooo important?
That's the bit that eludes me
Because gravitational waves still bear ( theoretically) the " imprint " of the " Big Bang " the moment the universe was created; so we may be able to determine much more about that moment; which may open up even better insights into physics.
Which in turn, may advance many other things....
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Listening to the radio earlier and they said we might be able to photograph the big bang. I know it's incredibly significant by the way it's being talked about but my knowledge of physics doesn't allow me to realise the full potential. |
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"Wasn't Einstein the bright lad!
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I thought that was Edison?
I thought it was the Ewoks.
No, Ewoks are what you cook Chinese food in.
I wondered why my Kung Pao had a side of hair. "
No No No....Kung Pao was that 1970's TV series with David Carradine |
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"Isn't there a theory that the static that you get on an analogue TV when it is not tuned in to a channel, effectively the electromagnetic resonance of the big bang?"
Some of it is.
Lots of it is just random electromagnetic detritus from many other sources. Some cool and some mundane. |
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"Wasn't this the only of Einstein's theories yet to have been proved? Until now!
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No, just about everything that Einstein predicted in his Special and General theories has been validated by practical observation and application e.g. your satnav wouldn't work accurately unless it used corrections calculated from his work.
The observation of Gravitational waves is the last major validation of his General theory. |
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My basic understanding is that general gravitational theory works best on big things, quantum theory works on small things, confirming the existence of gravitational waves is a step closer to an all encompassing theory for big and small things - but I might be wrong, I often am |
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"My basic understanding is that general gravitational theory works best on big things, quantum theory works on small things, confirming the existence of gravitational waves is a step closer to an all encompassing theory for big and small things - but I might be wrong, I often am"
It's very possible that it is another step towards the " grand unified theory", linking all the theories..... |
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"Yes, but does anybody know why it's so important?"
I heard something about it a few days ago and a bloke involved in searching for them said it was the equivalent to having a new sense in space ie. as well as being able to look, they could now listen.
Bit like watching porn without the sound off. |
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"Ok, so have announced that they have observed gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of spacetime, in a discovery that could completely change our understanding of the universe.
Gravitational waves were first predicted by Einstein 100 years ago, but have never been directly observed. This is a vindication of Einstein’s theory.
.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35524440"
Actually....speaking as a physics graduate. The ability to measure very very very small gravitational "ripples" from events that occurred over a billion light years away (so over a billion years ago) is great. We can use the technology to learn more about the cosmos.
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BUT! (Very big but). We have known about gravitational waves since the time of Issaac Newton. Gravitational waves occur when two (or more) massive bodies interact. The ones on the news were black holes a huge distance away. Like any other waves or ripples...as they spread they become smaller! We are only now able to measure such small ones.
But......here it is! We have all seen them many many times. And was explained by Newton hundreds of years ago. TIDES!
As the Earth rotates the moons gravitational field pulls on the Earth and causes tides. However the moon also orbits the Earth so sometimes (new/crescent moon) it is on the same side of Earth as the Sun. So the interaction of both of these bodies causes spring (bigger) tides for a few days once a month. The regular/periodic change in the height of the high tides are gravitational waves!
Einstein did NOT PREDICT them. He simply explained them in a different way.
Newton described gravity and gravitational waves in terms of forces and periodic changes in these forces as other bodies interacted.
Einstein described gravity as curvature in spacetime and gravitational waves as distortion in this curvature.
Not a new prediction...just a different way of looking at it!
Both were genii either way!
Hope that clears things up! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I've just had a look at this, and I've disproved it, its a false alarm, and I'm going to be publishing my findings online as soon as I can get lord lucan off the printer, I swear him and Elvis have no respect for science |
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