It was a 20 ms space-time event; detected on September 14, 2015. (1) For those of you who haven't been following any of this, start here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational-wave_astronomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO (2) Official press release: "LIGO Detected Gravitational Waves from Black Holes" http://www.ligo.org/news/detection-press-release.pdf https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/detection (3) Articles with technical content: "Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein's Prediction" https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20160211 "Einstein's gravitational waves found at last" http://www.nature.com/news/einstein-s-gravitational-waves-found-at-last-1.19361 "IT'S OFFICIAL: Gravitational waves have been detected, Einstein was right" http://www.sciencealert.com/live-update-big-gravitational-wave-announcement-is-happening-right-now "Gravity waves from black holes verify Einstein's prediction" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gravity-waves-black-holes-verify-einsteins-prediction "Gravitational waves detected 100 years after Einstein's prediction" http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160211103935.htm (4) The paper itself: https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P150914/public https://dcc.ligo.org/public/0122/P150914/014/LIGO-P150914%3ADetection_of_GW150914.pdf https://ia601500.us.archive.org/25/items/PhysRevLett.116.061102/PhysRevLett.116.061102.pdf /tvb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Van Baak" <[email protected]> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 8:00 AM Subject: [time-nuts] LIGO detects gravitational waves >From the live stream (https://youtu.be/c7293kAiPZw) Announced a couple of minutes ago Screen captures attached The ultimate time nuts relativity experiment... /tvb _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
