FW: Breaking news: Gravitational waves discovered

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Very cool. thanks for sharing. Funny coincidence, Ray Weiss was my undergrad adviser and I "borrowed" some of his early gravitational wave detection equipment to use on my Thesis work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Weiss From: "'Charlie Husar' hu… [at] gmail.com [Cal_Boats]" <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> To: "Cal Boats" <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 10:43:07 AM Subject: [Cal_Boats] FW: Breaking news: Gravitational waves discovered Hi, Folks. This isn’t sailing or ethanol, so I apologize. In physics, though, this is huge. I had to pass it on. Take Care Charlie Annapolis CAL 25 From: Astronomy Magazine [mailto:As… [at] maillist.astronomymail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 11:51 AM To: hu… [at] gmail.com Subject: Breaking news: Gravitational waves discovered View Online BREAKING NEWS A wrinkle in space-time confirms Einstein’s gravitation After 100 years of theory and decades of experiments, astronomers have finally detected gravitational waves directly for the first time. The announcement, made Thursday by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and accompanied by a paper in Physical Review Letters , describes a powerful signal that ultimately began with the merger of two black holes. Share on: Facebook | Twitter | Google+ Read more » Why the quest to prove Einstein wrong? Researchers are pushing Einstein's theory to the max, trying to see where it falters in order to connect gravity with the rest of physics. Read More » How Einstein's relativity changed the universe Albert Einstein’s theory of gravitation forever altered the way astronomers see the cosmos. Read More » A Century of Gravitational Waves Free Download it here » Cosmology's Greatest Discoveries $7.95 Get it here » Einstein's Universe Collector's Edition $7.99 Get it here » Click here to Unsubscribe. Customer Service | Change Email | Privacy Policy © 2016 Kalmbach Publishing Co. 21027 Crossroads Circle Waukesha, WI 53187

On 2/11/2016 1:43 PM, 'Charlie Husar' hu… [at] gmail.com [Cal_Boats] wrote: > Astronomy Magazine | Discover Magazine > > Hi, Folks. This isn’t sailing or ethanol, so I apologize. In > physics, though, this is huge. I had to pass it on. > Exactly, Charlie. This is all about what makes human beings such an interesting species. Here's what I e-mailed out to a bunch of friends & family today: > In these odd days of political primaries, when insults and coarse > pugnacity pass for political dialogue, it is refreshing to observe > intelligent people at work. Today we get news that there is evidence > confirming Einstein's theories about matter, space, and time: >> >> A team of physicists who can now count themselves as astronomers >> announced on Thursday that they had heard and recorded the sound of >> two black holes colliding a billion light-years away, a fleeting >> chirp that fulfilled the last prophecy of Einstein’s general theory >> of relativity >> <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/science/a-century-ago-einsteins-theory-of-relativity-changed-everything.html>. >> >> That faint rising tone, physicists say, is the first direct evidence >> of gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space-time that >> Einstein predicted a century ago. And it is a ringing (pun intended) >> confirmation of the nature of black holes, the bottomless >> gravitational pits from which not even light can escape, which were >> the most foreboding (and unwelcome) part of his theory. >> >> More generally, it means that scientists have finally tapped into the >> deepest register of physical reality, where the weirdest and wildest >> implications of Einstein’s universe become manifest. >> > > This is astonishing. First, it's astonishing that Einstein had the > insights he developed. We should be in awe of his extraordinary > perceptions. We know what horrible things human beings can do; we > should be equally aware of our capacity for knowledge and curiosity > and analysis. Second, it's astonishing that capable people could put > together the devices that yielded the data they have reported. For > most of us, this is thinking at a high level of abstraction. We can > look on, much as we admire skillful performances by athletes doing > things we could not do ourselves, and be gratified by the idea that > it's possible to do such things. Bravo! > > Here's the article link: >> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 Chris Campbell > >

Interesting. To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com; hu… [at] gmail.com From: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 17:06:50 -0500 Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] FW: Breaking news: Gravitational waves discovered On 2/11/2016 1:43 PM, 'Charlie Husar' hu… [at] gmail.com [Cal_Boats] wrote: Astronomy Magazine | Discover Magazine Hi, Folks. This isn’t sailing or ethanol, so I apologize. In physics, though, this is huge. I had to pass it on. Exactly, Charlie. This is all about what makes human beings such an interesting species. Here's what I e-mailed out to a bunch of friends & family today: In these odd days of political primaries, when insults and coarse pugnacity pass for political dialogue, it is refreshing to observe intelligent people at work. Today we get news that there is evidence confirming Einstein's theories about matter, space, and time: A team of physicists who can now count themselves as astronomers announced on Thursday that they had heard and recorded the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light-years away, a fleeting chirp that fulfilled the last prophecy of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. That faint rising tone, physicists say, is the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space-time that Einstein predicted a century ago. And it is a ringing (pun intended) confirmation of the nature of black holes, the bottomless gravitational pits from which not even light can escape, which were the most foreboding (and unwelcome) part of his theory. More generally, it means that scientists have finally tapped into the deepest register of physical reality, where the weirdest and wildest implications of Einstein’s universe become manifest. This is astonishing. First, it's astonishing that Einstein had the insights he developed. We should be in awe of his extraordinary perceptions. We know what horrible things human beings can do; we should be equally aware of our capacity for knowledge and curiosity and analysis. Second, it's astonishing that capable people could put together the devices that yielded the data they have reported. For most of us, this is thinking at a high level of abstraction. We can look on, much as we admire skillful performances by athletes doing things we could not do ourselves, and be gratified by the idea that it's possible to do such things. Bravo! Here's the article link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 Chris Campbell