Gravitational Waves may have been discovered:

[Mycroft]

http://www.techinsider.io/gravity-waves-detected-rumor-2016-1

If this turns out as confirmed, it'll be the biggest scientific breakthrough of the last two centuries.

 

[Parsimony]

We've already inferred the existence of gravitational waves through observations of the orbital decay rate of the binary neutron star system PSR B1913+16. It's not as good as direct observation of the waves themselves, but it does confirm to us that they should be there.

 

[Mycroft]

We've already inferred the existence of gravitational waves through observations of the orbital decay rate of the binary neutron star system PSR B1913+16. It's not as good as direct observation of the waves themselves, but it does confirm to us that they should be there.

Inferred, but not observed.

 

[Parsimony]

Inferred, but not observed.

True, though I did say as much. It would be nice if this rumor panned out.

 

[Laika]

So I take it Quantum Mechanics just got a little bit more complicated?

 

[Nietzsche]

So I take it Quantum Mechanics just got a little bit more complicated?

Because it wasn't mind-numbingly obtuse enough already!

 

[Revoltingest]

I've been wondering how soon a new detector would yield results.
I watch with great interest.

 

[Wirey]

Yeah, but dude, can you like, surf them?

 

[Revoltingest]

Yeah, but dude, can you like, surf them?

Nah, they're pitifully small waves by the time they reach us.
But you can still wade nude thru them.

 

[MARCELLO]

I am not very good at physics but I surely know that not even gravity has ever been proved,yet the waves of it!

 

[Revoltingest]

I am not very good at physics but I surely know that not even gravity has ever been proved,yet the waves of it!

There is much controversy over the theory of gravity, which is indeed only a theory.
Many schools here want to teach the controversy over alternative theories, eg, Intelligent Falling.
http://www.theonion.com/article/evangelical-scientists-refute-gravity-with-new-int-1778

 

[Skwim]

There is much controversy over the theory of gravity, which is indeed only a theory.
Many schools here want to teach the controversy over alternative theories, eg, Intelligent Falling.
http://www.theonion.com/article/evangelical-scientists-refute-gravity-with-new-int-1778

 

[Revoltingest]

Rub'n me nose in the fact that yer much better at communicate'n than I am, eh?
Alas....tis true.....

 

[MARCELLO]

intelligent fall ??? lol what about then intelligent bouncing? Was it not centuries before that religion interfered science?

 

[Skwim]

Rub'n me nose in the fact that yer much better at communicate'n than I am, eh?
Alas....tis true.....

I couldn't resist sharing. It's a beautiful piece, right down to the illustration shown on the screen in the background, and a headline I had forgotten all about. Thanks for reminding me.

 

[prometheus11]

Just wow. Great stuff.

 

[Mycroft]

Update: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sci...s-the-scientific-highlight-of-the-decade.html

Gravitational waves have been confirmed and the papers of its discovery accepted by Physical Review Letters.

This is not only the discovery of the decade for physics, but also proves Einstein was right.

 

[allfoak]