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Hey, SHUT UP! The "&N" stands for AND NEWS, k? 
"The very fabric of the cosmos is constantly being roiled and rumpled all around us, according to multiple international teams of scientists that have independently found compelling evidence for long-theorized space-time waves.
[...]
In Einstein’s reimagined universe, space is not serenely empty, and time does not march smoothly forward. Instead, the powerful gravitational interactions of massive objects — including supermassive black holes — regularly ripple the fabric of space and time. The picture that emerges is a universe that looks like a choppy sea, churned by violent events that happened over the course of the past 13 billion-plus years.
The gravitational wave background, as described by the astrophysicists, does not put any torque on everyday human existence. There is not a weight-loss discovery in here somewhere. A burble of gravitational waves cannot explain why some days you feel out of sorts. But it does offer potential insight into the physical reality we all inhabit."
^^^ This is all way above my pay grade, but exciting nonetheless. It reinforces my layman's impression of the extraordinarily big brain that Big Al had. One of the funniest single panel cartoons I ever saw featured this former Austrian patent clerk in an auto mechanics works shirt with "Al" emblazoned on it. But I digress.
On second thought, and on a personal note, allow me to digress further. I LOVE Anandtech, and I especially love P&N. As I tell anyone who will stand still long enough to listen, I'm really an analog guy. I stumbled upon Anandtech during the time of the magical Celly 300, back when the hoi polloi discovered you could flip a few dip switches on a motherboard and -- presto chango -- have the equivalent of a Pentium 450, back when that yielded immediate real world results! But what I want to say here is how much and how deeply I appreciate the knowledge so many of you bring to discussions about the recent Titanic tragedy and the hardware implications of the Ukranian war. I salute you guys! You make me seem smarter! And as we of ATOT all know, "high levels of smartness" will get you laid, and other good things!
In a major discovery, scientists say space-time churns like a choppy sea
The mind-bending finding suggests that everything around us is constantly being roiled by low-frequency gravitational waves
"The very fabric of the cosmos is constantly being roiled and rumpled all around us, according to multiple international teams of scientists that have independently found compelling evidence for long-theorized space-time waves.
[...]
In Einstein’s reimagined universe, space is not serenely empty, and time does not march smoothly forward. Instead, the powerful gravitational interactions of massive objects — including supermassive black holes — regularly ripple the fabric of space and time. The picture that emerges is a universe that looks like a choppy sea, churned by violent events that happened over the course of the past 13 billion-plus years.
The gravitational wave background, as described by the astrophysicists, does not put any torque on everyday human existence. There is not a weight-loss discovery in here somewhere. A burble of gravitational waves cannot explain why some days you feel out of sorts. But it does offer potential insight into the physical reality we all inhabit."
^^^ This is all way above my pay grade, but exciting nonetheless. It reinforces my layman's impression of the extraordinarily big brain that Big Al had. One of the funniest single panel cartoons I ever saw featured this former Austrian patent clerk in an auto mechanics works shirt with "Al" emblazoned on it. But I digress.
On second thought, and on a personal note, allow me to digress further. I LOVE Anandtech, and I especially love P&N. As I tell anyone who will stand still long enough to listen, I'm really an analog guy. I stumbled upon Anandtech during the time of the magical Celly 300, back when the hoi polloi discovered you could flip a few dip switches on a motherboard and -- presto chango -- have the equivalent of a Pentium 450, back when that yielded immediate real world results! But what I want to say here is how much and how deeply I appreciate the knowledge so many of you bring to discussions about the recent Titanic tragedy and the hardware implications of the Ukranian war. I salute you guys! You make me seem smarter! And as we of ATOT all know, "high levels of smartness" will get you laid, and other good things!
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