<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>Just watched webcast, great stuff!</div><div><br>On Feb 11, 2016, at 5:13 PM, John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">On Sept. 14<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>at 4am the LIGO <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">detector in </div>Livingston<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> Louisiana </div>detected <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">a burst </font><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">of gravitational waves, 7 milliseconds later the LIGO detector in Hanford Washington detected the same thing. The possibility of this being due to chance is </font></div>vanishingly small<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">. What they detected was 2 black holes circling each other at 250 times a second, one was 36 times the mass of the sun and the other 29 times. The entire signal only lasted for a fifth of a second. </div></font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html</a><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">John K Clark</div></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div>
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