Has gravitational waves been discovered?

[tyroneweaver]

E=MC2 may be just around the corner or should I say bent around the corner.

Has giant LIGO experiment seen gravitational waves?

 

[tyroneweaver]

 

[Delta4Embassy]

E=MC2 may be just around the corner or should I say bent around the corner.

Has giant LIGO experiment seen gravitational waves?

Um, e=mc2 was proven with the Trinity test.

 

[mamooth]

The eLisa mission from the European Space Agency will be much more sensitive, but that's not going up until around 2034. The gear is so complicated that they're sending up a technology demo satellite on Nov 27 2015, LISA pathfinder, to start working the bugs out.

eLISA will have 3 satellites flying in a triangle formation, spaced about a million kilometers apart, with laser interferometers on them that can measure the distances between them to sub-millimeter distances. With that kind of precision, it would be possible to see the ongoing gravitational waves from a pair of white dwarf stars circling each other in an extremely tight orbit. The LIGO setup can only see the rare bigger waves, like those from a pair of neutron stars or black holes spiraling into each other.

 

[tyroneweaver]

The eLisa mission from the European Space Agency will be much more sensitive, but that's not going up until around 2034. The gear is so complicated that they're sending up a technology demo satellite on Nov 27 2015, LISA pathfinder, to start working the bugs out.

eLISA will have 3 satellites flying in a triangle formation, spaced about a million kilometers apart, with laser interferometers on them that can measure the distances between them to sub-millimeter distances. With that kind of precision, it would be possible to see the ongoing gravitational waves from a pair of white dwarf stars circling each other in an extremely tight orbit. The LIGO setup can only see the rare bigger waves, like those from a pair of neutron stars or black holes spiraling into each other.

ya, I kinda know what your talking about. I always worn golfers not to stand behind me when I golf cause the force of my down swing is so great that it might suck them in and spit them out the other side.