Major astrophysics discovery to be unveiled on Monday.

[Hayabusa Rider]

Assuming there is enough power to be had the best way to exit the solar system may be to leave perpendicular to the ecliptic. There may be less to run into.

What's really interesting is that r=2. Gravitational waves have been expected but that was not.

 

[Paratus]

paratus what about the natilus iss test section? might it be possible that they might make it and put it with the iss?

Since I just had to go look this up, it's not anywhere close to being flown or we'd have started having meetings and developing ops products.

It's still possible they might, it's what the ISS was designed for, but money is tight all around NASA.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Assuming there is enough power to be had the best way to exit the solar system may be to leave perpendicular to the ecliptic. There may be less to run into.

What's really interesting is that r=2. Gravitational waves have been expected but that was not.

Self quoting because of time warp

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Decided to necro this thread since a new group today is saying they have detected gravitational waves.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/11/us/gravitational-waves-feat/index.html

The discovery, based on ripples in space-time detected by LIGO, supports a prediction made by Albert Einstein that's essential to his general theory of relativity. The ripples LIGO detected are based on the merging of two black holes, Reitze said.

"What's really exciting is what comes next," he said. "I think we're opening a window on the universe -- a window of gravitational wave astronomy."

LIGO is described in a statement as "two identical detectors carefully constructed to detect incredibly tiny vibrations from passing gravitational waves," one located in Louisiana, the other in Washington State. The project was created by scientists from Caltech and MIT and funded by the National Science Foundation.

Szabolcs Marka, a physics professor at Columbia University, told CNN that "we will be able to study not just Einstein's general relativity -- we'll be able to find objects we only imagined would exist. We should see a universe that has never been observed before."

See if this one holds up to confirmation.

 

[zinfamous]

Interesting. I got an email in my inbox to go watch the press conference live at 10:30am. I have no idea wtf they are talking about so I passed.

 

[Thebobo]

They have detected gravitational waves for the first time

Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right

 

[GagHalfrunt]

I was hoping that they found intelligent life on Earth, then I saw the Triumph college kid video and knew that couldn't be possible.

 

[BxgJ]

They have detected gravitational waves for the first time

Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right

Yeah I've been hearing about this in the physics news/blogs. Interesting.

 

[norseamd]

Yeah I've been hearing about this in the physics news/blogs. Interesting.

Which ones do you read?

 

[Fritzo]

To clarify on what a big deal this achievement is, it's going to change astronomy and astrophysics for the next 100 years. Gravitational waves are ripples in space/time caused by two massive objects colliding or rotating around each other. They measured the waves off of a black hole collision that occurred 1.3 billion years ago in today's example.

Now, here's the cool part: those waves actually carry information. From them, we can tell things like location, mass, composition, speed, and a lot of other things. This means we may finally be able to actually "see" the interior of a black hole. How cool is that!

In the future, we'll be able to use wave astronomy to study objects previously thought to be observable.

 

[reallyscrued]

To clarify on what a big deal this achievement is, it's going to change astronomy and astrophysics for the next 100 years. Gravitational waves are ripples in space/time caused by two massive objects colliding or rotating around each other. They measured the waves off of a black hole collision that occurred 1.3 billion years ago in today's example.

Now, here's the cool part: those waves actually carry information. From them, we can tell things like location, mass, composition, speed, and a lot of other things. This means we may finally be able to actually "see" the interior of a black hole. How cool is that!

In the future, we'll be able to use wave astronomy to study objects previously thought to be observable.

Thanks for the summary, but I think you mean "unobservable".

 

[Fritzo]

Thanks for the summary, but I think you mean "unobservable".

Some objects are just too darn far away, are obscured by dust, or, in the case of black holes, no radiation transmits beyond their event horizon.

 

[JTsyo]

Short version: apod.nasa.gov

 

[BxgJ]

Which ones do you read?

Some are -

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/

http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/

http://profmattstrassler.com/

http://physicsandphysicists.blogspot.com/ - this looks horrid in my web browser, but ok in my rss reader

http://phys.org/

https://www.physicsforums.com/ - pretty good science forum, mods keep it pretty much on topic. A number of profs on there.

http://motls.blogspot.com/ - the strictly physics posts are informative, but I avoid the political stuff he likes to post.

There's more but I don't want to post my whole rss list here.

 

[Homerboy]

Love this stuff.
Boggles my mind.

 

[reallyscrued]

Some objects are just too darn far away, are obscured by dust, or, in the case of black holes, no radiation transmits beyond their event horizon.

So that would qualify as "unobservable"...right?

 

[DaTT]

Thought this was a new thread, saw the OP's name on the thread list, pooped a little.

 

[TheVrolok]

Got the update from the NYT app earlier in the day. Had an idea it was gravitational waves. Yay LIGO! Exciting!

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Thought this was a new thread, saw the OP's name on the thread list, pooped a little.

A bit of funny, a bit of sad. Fitting that one of his threads is back up for a bit.

 

[Fritzo]

So that would qualify as "unobservable"...right?

Exactly. Once this tech is tweaked we're going to be seeing things never seen before.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Thought this was a new thread, saw the OP's name on the thread list, pooped a little.

Man forgot he started it when I resurrected the thread....

Now I has a sad.

 

[Darwin333]

So that would qualify as "unobservable"...right?

Thanks Capt. Obvious, protecting the world from one typo at a time.

 

[Jeff7]

So that would qualify as "unobservable"...right?

Observable...unobservable....
It's like the relationship between "flammable" and "inflammable."

 

[IronWing]

Do they refract through or reflect off of massive objects?

 

[MongGrel]

Man forgot he started it when I resurrected the thread....

Now I has a sad.

Nice that it has carried on though.

Have to look more into this one myself.