<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:28 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br> <br> <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 lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_2571449130337169108WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">></div>Fourier transforms sometimes do weird things, but I can’t imagine how two completely separate instruments could have done exactly the same weird thing at exactly the same time unless it was the real deal. <p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><font size="4">LIGO is just completing it's second observation run, if they had 4 million such runs you'<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">d</div> expect to see a jiggle as large <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">as the</div> October 12 2015<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> event caused by random noise once, and after another 4 million runs you might see a noise jiggle as big as the </div>December 26 2015<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> event. Actually it's even more unlikely than that because LIGO, being a interferometer, can see more than just a jiggle, it can see an entire waveform, and the waveform LIGO saw looks almost exactly like the waveform Einstein predicted you'd see from 2 Black Holes spiraling into each other: </div> </font></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsites.psu.edu%2Fligo%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F35076%2F2016%2F02%2F20bbh.png&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsites.psu.edu%2Fligo%2Fhearing-black-holes-and-neutron-stars%2F&docid=qkXO33X4DcIdoM&tbnid=z2VbcrNcG4k9wM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwi45KyTipjUAhVKsVQKHWpABZgQMwgoKAcwBw..i&w=3600&h=1980&hl=en&bih=981&biw=1745&q=LIGO%20waveform&ved=0ahUKEwi45KyTipjUAhVKsVQKHWpABZgQMwgoKAcwBw&iact=mrc&uact=8">https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsites.psu.edu%2Fligo%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F35076%2F2016%2F02%2F20bbh.png&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsites.psu.edu%2Fligo%2Fhearing-black-holes-and-neutron-stars%2F&docid=qkXO33X4DcIdoM&tbnid=z2VbcrNcG4k9wM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwi45KyTipjUAhVKsVQKHWpABZgQMwgoKAcwBw..i&w=3600&h=1980&hl=en&bih=981&biw=1745&q=LIGO%20waveform&ved=0ahUKEwi45KyTipjUAhVKsVQKHWpABZgQMwgoKAcwBw&iact=mrc&uact=8</a> </div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">But nothing is certain in life so maybe it's all just a huge coincidence, but I wouldn't bet on it. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><blockquote 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" class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>I doubt they would request a press conference to say they didn’t find anything.</span><span style="font-size:large"></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">I'll be mad if they just announce they're changing their logo or the vending machines in the instillation's cafeteria, </font></div><font size="4"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><br></div><div><br></div><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"><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div>