My thought is I wonder if its possible to create some kind of gravitational wave detector that can view objects that don't produce a lot of photons. Maybe there could be structures that wash out photonically, by the background radiation, but spike big time, as grav waves?
Sent from AOL Mobile Mail -----Original Message----- From: Russell Standish <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Feb 11, 2016 05:14 PM Subject: Re: Gravitational Waves Detected By LIGO! Fantastic news! On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:16:57AM -0500, John Clark wrote: > On Sept. 14 at 4am the LIGO detector in Livingston Louisiana detected a > burst of gravitational waves, 7 milliseconds later the LIGO detector in > Hanford Washington detected the same thing. The possibility of this being > due to chance is vanishingly small. What they detected was 2 black holes > circling each other at 250 times a second, one was 36 times the mass of the > sun and the other 29 times. The entire signal only lasted for a fifth of a > second. > > <a > href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html"; > > target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html</a> > > > 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 <a > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>. > To post to this group, send email to <a > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>. > Visit this group at <a href="https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list"; > target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list</a>. > For more options, visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/optout"; > target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/d/optout</a>. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow <a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a> Economics, Kingston University <a href="http://www.hpcoders.com.au"; target="_blank">http://www.hpcoders.com.au</a> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 <a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>. To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>. Visit this group at <a href="https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list"; target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list</a>. For more options, visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/optout"; target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/d/optout</a>. -- 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.
