[ExI] Gravity wave math

Tomaz Kristan protokol2020 at gmail.com
Mon May 29 12:34:58 UTC 2017


> The first confirmed gravitational wave event occurred on September 14
2015, and the second occurred on December 26 2015. Both had a sigma of 5.3

A bacteria which has only been seen during a test phase of a microscope
operation - isn't real. Must be confirmed later under some stricter
circumstances.

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 4:55 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
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> *Sent:* Sunday, May 28, 2017 3:23 PM
> *To:* ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Gravity wave math
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> >…In contrast the September 14 2015 LIGO signal was so strong that in just
> hours nearly all the scientists involved were convinced they'd found
> colliding Black Holes, although they didn't say so publicly for about 6
> months. There has been some criticism. justified I think, that they kept it
> secret too long. I'll bet they've already found some cool stuff in the
> second observing run that they won't talk about until they've finished
> writing the journal paper…John K Clark
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> I cut them plenty of slack on this.  The thing hadn’t even been on but for
> a very short time.  Had I seen that signal, I would have said noooo way
> Jose, just no way.  It’s too much like buying exactly one lottery ticket,
> not even knowing how to play, never bought one before, just bought it as an
> afterthought, and it wins the big jackpot, and you are the only one to pick
> that number.  You would just say no, this just can’t be.  I have plenty of
> dreams that go like this, but reality never does, no way.  This signal must
> be a mistake.
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> Then consider they would be betting it all: their careers would be
> Pons/Fleishmanned down the toilet forever if they were wrong.  I would have
> waited all of 6 months, then when everyone agreed it was time to announce,
> I would fall on my knees and pray to nobody that we were right, and after I
> finished, I would pray that there was a god so I would have something or
> someone to pray to that the result was correct.
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> They did the right thing.  Besides that… it was exciting as all hell
> wasn’t it?  I remember being present when they presented up at Stanford,
> oooooohhhh what a time it was, what a time.
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