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LIGO News Release (Einstein@Home)

Started by Dataman, February 11, 2016, 03:13:11 PM

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Dataman

For the Einstein crunchers.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-gravitywaves-idUSKCN0VJ2Q9

"Scientists from the California Institute of Technology, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration are set to make what they bill as a "status report" on Thursday on the quest to detect gravitational waves. It is widely expected they will announce they have achieved their goal."

Bruce Allen for a Nobel Prize?  biggrin


JugNut

It would be totally awesome if the discoveries were detected from our crunching efforts  biggrin  We'll just have to wait & see I guess?


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chooka03

Yes Ive been reading about this also.
I think the gravity of the discovery is a bit lost on me though. (pardon the pun)  biggrin

Dataman

For anyone awake down under, you can watch live here in about 30 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/user/VideosatNSF/live


Dataman

#4
An outstanding presentation. Worth watching the rebroadcast. Very good computer graphics.
A synopsis of the find from Science magazine:
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/gravitational-waves-einstein-s-ripples-spacetime-spotted-first-time
From Einstein@Home:
https://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=11814

Keep on crunching.
:oz:


kashi

Thanks for the links.  :thumbsup:

Will watch video tomorrow on a tablet that has sound. Synopsis from Science magazine is good. Easy to understand and includes a brief history of the search for gravitational waves.

Neil G

The links were very informative and thanks for them Dataman!  Heard about the discovery on Wikipedia and couldn't wait to dig into it further.  :jester: :jester:

kashi

Well that was great. How good are those scientists at explaining stuff?

Even with the best explanations in the world, the idea that 2 black holes colliding 1.3 billion years ago caused my head to be squished and stretched last September is still like something out of the Twilight Zone.

When they said that the 2 black holes merging produced more energy than all the stars in the universe, that was another WTF moment for me. I mean, "all the stars in the universe" seems like a rather nebulous concept (groan). Perhaps they meant all the stars in the observable universe?

Remember reading about the experience of a full meditative state (dhyana), not the practice of meditation itself (dharana), being like bringing the 2 poles (time and space) of the cosmic egg (universal mind) together towards the central point which contains matter. When time and space meet, the resulting explosion releases massive amounts of energy and blasts the universal mind into millions of fragments, but each fragment itself is infinite. Just another thing that seems weirdly uncanny; that infinity plus infinity equals infinity. One could even say mind blowing, haha.

You know I rarely watch youtube as my old crunching computer has no soundcard. Had to remove it to fit 2 GPUs in the coolest positions and when I went back to a single GPU never put it back in. However there are some other interesting youtube videos from the NSF. My newer computer has sound so I will plug some headphones in and listen/watch.

So thanks again for the links Dataman, your enthusiasm has inspired me to try and educate myself a little more. Nothing wrong with crunching "blindly" with faith in potential benefits of course, but if we have the time, knowing a little more about what we are helping to research can add a little spice to crunching.  :wavey2:


Sean

#8
Yep pretty exciting stuff, hopefully they make more detections soon.  :thumbsup:


edit: Here is the scientific paper (link from Einstein@home forum) if anyone wants some light reading: https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P150914/public/main

Dataman

Quote from: Sean on February 13, 2016, 09:50:42 AM
edit: Here is the scientific paper (link from Einstein@home forum) if anyone wants some light reading: https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P150914/public/main
Thanks! I read it this morning. Actually rather straight forward except the mathematics is a couple of rungs above my paygrade.  :rofl:
:cheers:


JugNut

#10
Yea I know what you mean Dataman, after reading a few pages I kinda started to feel like a black hole myself.  Well the astronomically dense part anyway;)


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