[ExI] Gravitational Waves Detected By LIGO!

[BillK]

On 11 February 2016 at 16:13, John Clark  wrote:
> On Sept. 14 at 4am the LIGO detector in Livingston Louisiana  detected a burst
> 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 vanishingly small. 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.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html
>


I'm feeling queasy already. Maybe I'm allergic.
Can I claim sickness benefit for this?    :)

BillK