What difference does it make (to us) if something happens 50 or 650 million lightyears away? - No matter if _NOW_ or _THEN-in the deepest past_ . Iwould be less benevolent and call those "rumors' rather fantasy (even if supported by some human mathemaital considerations...) John M
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:57 AM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday at 10.30 EST (15.30GMT) the Laser Interferometer > Gravitation-Wave Observatory will announce if they've found gravitational > waves or not after its recent upgrade. Before the upgrade LIGO could detect > binary neutron star mergers 50 million light years away, after the > upgrade it could detect them 650 light years away, a volume over 2000 times > larger. The physics world is full of rumors. > > John K Clark > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
