<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Mon, May 29, 2017  Tomaz Kristan </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:protokol2020@gmail.com" target="_blank">protokol2020@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>Perhaps this equipment have to be too delicate to be reliable. I don't know. I know however, that we have a long silence from those instruments. As long as they are in the production phase.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>Just as I've predicted, more than a year ago.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​</div><font size="4">That's not quite what happened. On February 9 2016<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ just </div>2 days<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>before the big LIGO<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>announcement<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>I<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>commented <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​about​</div> the upcoming event<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>on this list<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>and said<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>"<i>The physics world is full of rumors</i>" and you said "<i>It's betting time then!<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ I </div>bet<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>they will say that NO gravitational waves have been detected so far</i>"<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>I responded <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​to your post ​</div>with<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>"<i>I<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>would bet they are found because generally it's not a good idea to bet against Einstein</i>". I won that bet. </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">And then on June 15 2016 LIGO announced a second detection of gravitational waves. After that LIGO went offline for 6 months <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​due to​</div> maintenance.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> John K Clark​</div> </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></span></div><div><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​</div></font></div></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>