[ExI] More news from LIGO on October 16

[spike]

From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of John Clark
Subject: [ExI] More news from LIGO on October 16

 

 Rainer Weiss

 

 

>…"The gravitational

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waves are interesting, and the fact that you can directly detect them is important, but the real payoff is going to be in the future.​  It's already happened, in some regards, and more of it will happen on October 16. I won't tell you what it is, but I can tell you that there is more there, and I think there's another whoop-de-do arranged for that. And I urge you to go to it, because the announcement is actually very interesting. But I won't say any more than that."

 

​John K Clark​

 

 

Best guess, they will tell us they found a merger of two neutron stars.  That will have a different signature from the black hole merger.  

 

Henceforth every gathering of geeks should be called a whoop-de-do.  If others are present besides the usual suspects, we hardcore types, that can still be a schmooze.  Otherwise, a whoop-de-do.

 

Ooooooh this is cool.

 

spike

 

 

 

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