[ExI] LIGO: RE: Hey, look on the bright side

[spike]

From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Tomaz Kristan
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Subject: Re: [ExI] Hey, look on the bright side

 

>…Now, move to LIGO. Why it doesn't report some new black hole mergers? It's November.

 

 

 

I have been on the edge of my seat.  I am seeing way less LIGO news than I anticipated.  One possibility is the pre-2015 black hold models were more right than they appear and we just got crazy lucky with those two detections.  I have work to do, but if we were three sigma lucky back then, we might be waiting for the next event.  It could be that 20 solar masses and higher mergers are as rare as discovering new Mersenne primes.

 

spike

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