"It's astounding, really," said Prof Nelson Christensen from the Côte d'Azur Observatory in France. "This signal propagated for seven billion years. So this event happened 'just before halftime' for the Universe, and now it's mechanically moved our detectors here on Earth," he explained to BBC News.
Science fiction.
"The LIGO-VIRGO collaboration is reporting the 21 May, 2019, event (catalogued as GW190521) in two scholarly papers.
One is in the journal Physical Review Letters and describes the discovery. The second can be found in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, and discusses the signal's physical properties and scientific implications.
GW190521 is one of over 50 gravitational wave triggers presently being investigated at the laser laboratories.
The pace of research has increased rapidly since the collaboration made its first, Nobel-Prize-winning detection of gravitational waves in 2015."
With all due respect, I will put a bit more weight into a Nobel-Prize winning collaboration's hypothesis than your curmudgeonly opinion. Or, maybe you would like to post the scholarly papers you've published on the subject to support yours?
@Amzungu Those “scholarly papers” have impressive-looking names. I have studied the science. Have you? When I haven’t studied the science, I follow the trail of money.
Are they vanity presses? Who pays how much to publish in them? Who pays how much to read them?
The Standard Model, the Big Bang, is slowly running out of taxpayer money. Former employees are marketing their abilities or knowledge in other ways.
In my first career I wrote for computer manufacturers. In retirement, I wrote on law and some of my stuff is in academic libraries.
@yvilletom "In my first career I wrote for computer manufacturers. In retirement, I wrote on law and some of my stuff is in academic libraries."
So my conclusion is that you have nothing academicl to offer on this subject outside of trying to minimize the accomplishment of a Nobel prize. Thanks for the insight. It's clear through your multiple responses on other posts that you have no respect for research, discovery or potential understanding of the Cosmos, which makes me wonder why you're in this group at all, other than to set yourself out as smarter than everyone else, though I simply find you to be merely crass.
@desertastronomer “Sticks and stones ....” Your name calling reveals your weakness.
There’s hope for you two; you agree that you don’t enjoy weakness.
Do a search on “closeup photographs of comets”
Do they look like dusty iceballs? Or snowy dustballs?
Of course not. Yet that’s what the Standard Model folk, those who want you to believe their Big Bang story, want you to believe.
Congrats. You’ve made a start away from the kind of nonsense religions want you to believe.
Posted by starwatcher-alThe occultation of Mars on the 7th.
Posted by starwatcher-alThe occultation of Mars on the 7th.
Posted by starwatcher-alSolar minimum was in 2019 so the sun is ramping up in flares, spots and prominences.
Posted by starwatcher-alI missed the early phases of the eclipse but the clouds mostly left during totality. All in all a great eclipse. Next one is Nov. 8-22
Posted by starwatcher-alI missed the early phases of the eclipse but the clouds mostly left during totality. All in all a great eclipse. Next one is Nov. 8-22
Posted by RobecologyFor those following the JWST.
Posted by AnonySchmoose The post-launch set-up of the new James Webb telescope has gone very well.
Posted by HumanistJohnImages taken with Stellina (80 mm): M33 Triangulum Galaxy M1 Crab Nebula NGC281 Pacman Nebula in Cassiopeia NGC 6992 Veil Nebula in Cygnus
Posted by HumanistJohnImages taken with Stellina (80 mm): M33 Triangulum Galaxy M1 Crab Nebula NGC281 Pacman Nebula in Cassiopeia NGC 6992 Veil Nebula in Cygnus
Posted by HumanistJohnImages taken with Stellina (80 mm): M33 Triangulum Galaxy M1 Crab Nebula NGC281 Pacman Nebula in Cassiopeia NGC 6992 Veil Nebula in Cygnus
Posted by HumanistJohnImages taken with Stellina (80 mm): M33 Triangulum Galaxy M1 Crab Nebula NGC281 Pacman Nebula in Cassiopeia NGC 6992 Veil Nebula in Cygnus
Posted by HumanistJohnImages taken October 2nd 2021 with Stellina 1.
Posted by HumanistJohnImages taken October 2nd 2021 with Stellina 1.
Posted by HumanistJohnImages taken October 2nd 2021 with Stellina 1.
Posted by starwatcher-al Did you know that you can see Venus in the daytime?
Posted by starwatcher-alOne of these days I think that I'll figure out this Nikon.