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Gravitational waves detected

Rick O'Shez

Rick O'Shez

Irishman bouncing off walls
Amazing that the waves they detected have been travelling for over a billion years. I assume they'll just keeping going, like for ever?
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Wirey said:
Looks like Einstein wasn't a moron after all:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/ligo-gravitational-wave-1.3443697
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But.....

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RRex

Active Member
Premium Member
metis said:
And this also may lend some support for Hawking's hypothesis that our universe may have started from these electromagnetic waves.
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Have you got a link to this specific hypothesis? Sounds interesting. I'd like to read more about it.
 
metis

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
Revoltingest said:
How is the post #8 claim supported by this?
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Observations in the microwave band have opened our eyes to the faint imprints of the Big Bang, a discovery Stephen Hawking called the "greatest discovery of the century, if not all time".

I have both heard and read Hawking putting forth his hypothesis on this before, and it might show up on the link to him in Wikipedia, but I don't have the time to try to check it out.

I'm actually on my way "out the door" as I'm chief cook and bottle-washer today: ground lamb tostadas with steamed cauliflower and a soy dipping sauce-- we're multi-ethnic today. Normally, we 're just "ethnic"-- my wife cooks Sicilian on most days of the week.
 
metis

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
Revoltingest said:
That's old news.
It's this claim which I question.....
"..... Hawking's hypothesis that our universe may have started from these electromagnetic waves."
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I gotta be brief, so here's part of the "equation":

Although the General Theory of Relativity predicted that the universe must have come from a period of high curvature in the past, it could not predict how the universe would emerge from the big bang. Thus general relativity on its own cannot answer the central question in cosmology: Why is the universe the way it is? However, if general relativity is combined with quantum theory, it may be possible to predict how the universe would start. It would initially expand at an ever increasing rate. -- http://www.religiousforums.com/threads/gravitational-waves-detected.184559/#post-4631861

I'll be back tomorrow, and I'll see if I can find more what I'm looking for.
 
metis

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
Now, delving deeper, Hawking suggests a theory on the expansion of the universe immediately following the Big Bang. This next discovery could connect many loose ends, if the theory is accepted by physicists. Together with Thomas Hertog, Belgium Professor of Theoretical Physics, Hawking works on theory based on gravitational waves and their role in the beginning of time. It seems that the BICEP team, at the South Pole, may already have detected gravitational waves direct from the first moment of existence. These primordial waves, if they in fact do exist, can prove to be evidence much more powerful than the discovery of the Higgs Boson. -- http://www.learning-mind.com/steven...y-of-everything-based-on-gravitational-waves/
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
metis said:
Now, delving deeper, Hawking suggests a theory on the expansion of the universe immediately following the Big Bang. This next discovery could connect many loose ends, if the theory is accepted by physicists. Together with Thomas Hertog, Belgium Professor of Theoretical Physics, Hawking works on theory based on gravitational waves and their role in the beginning of time. It seems that the BICEP team, at the South Pole, may already have detected gravitational waves direct from the first moment of existence. These primordial waves, if they in fact do exist, can prove to be evidence much more powerful than the discovery of the Higgs Boson. -- http://www.learning-mind.com/steven...y-of-everything-based-on-gravitational-waves/
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How does this relate to they hypothesis that the universe "started from electromagnetic waves?
Certainly, electromagnetic waves accompanied the Big Bang, but I thought this was more of a consequence.
 
metis

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
Revoltingest said:
How does this relate to they hypothesis that the universe "started from electromagnetic waves?
Certainly, electromagnetic waves accompanied the Big Bang, but I thought this was more of a consequence.
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Because the gravitational waves themselves appear to consist of electromagnetic particles, such as what had been hypothesized with M-Theory.
 
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