OT: Scientists confirm existence of gravitational waves
February 11th, 2016 at 11:37 AM ^
we can put a man on the moon.
#fingerscrossed
February 11th, 2016 at 12:29 PM ^
I thought Andy Kaufman did that already....REM made a song about it...
February 11th, 2016 at 12:34 PM ^
No, that was Stanley Kubrick. Don't know about the REM thing.
February 11th, 2016 at 1:12 PM ^
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February 11th, 2016 at 2:09 PM ^
Yeah, haven't we built a warp drive already?
February 11th, 2016 at 12:44 PM ^
February 11th, 2016 at 5:58 PM ^
Or is he still floating in his tin can?
February 11th, 2016 at 11:37 AM ^
confirmed this a long time ago.
February 11th, 2016 at 12:37 PM ^
with the 2016 Michigan Defense.
...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.(most noticeably unwelcome these days to the SEC)
February 11th, 2016 at 11:39 AM ^
It means we can listen to the Space EP by The Devil Wears Prada
February 11th, 2016 at 12:17 PM ^
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February 11th, 2016 at 11:43 AM ^
has their been a better description of boxed lasagna than the one Jesse Pinkman delivered at the White dinner table. "Just becomes one big scab."
February 11th, 2016 at 12:22 PM ^
My wife's favorite scene of the whole series. Which BTW, is the greatest TV series in the history of TV.
February 11th, 2016 at 12:59 PM ^
OK, let's go -
1. Game of Thrones, 2. Breaking Bad, 3. Deadwood, 4. The Sopranos, 5. Rectify(this could go as high as 3 depending on where it goes and for how long).
Yes, The Wire is notably absent, as is Mad Men. Was just never that impressed.
February 11th, 2016 at 1:25 PM ^
February 11th, 2016 at 1:29 PM ^
Did you get to it late? The last season was shit, but there were some outstanding stretches. Sopranos should always get the nod both because of longevity, but there's too many white people who need to cite The Wire as a favorite to prove they're not racist.
February 11th, 2016 at 4:33 PM ^
February 11th, 2016 at 11:23 PM ^
a reverse racist and a showoff
/s
February 11th, 2016 at 1:31 PM ^
I've never watched GoT, Breaking Bad, Deadwood, The Wire, or Mad Men. I've never heard of Rectify.
However, I have seen a few episodes of the Sapranos.
February 11th, 2016 at 1:56 PM ^
Deadwood not getting renewed is right up there with the loss of Arrested Development.
Rumors swirling of a Deadwood movie, though:
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/07/hbo-deadwood-movie-happening
February 11th, 2016 at 3:52 PM ^
Tried to watch Mad Men. Couldn't make it past a couple episodes. Never saw GOT and started watching The Sopranos, ironcially, for the first time last Saturday. I'm on season 2 episode 10...so, yea it's good.
February 11th, 2016 at 9:14 PM ^
February 12th, 2016 at 12:25 AM ^
Am I the only one who votes modern family and seinfeld as being in the top 10 (and that's conservative)!
and my wife would say grey's anatomy...
February 12th, 2016 at 12:08 PM ^
The Office is superior to Modern Family, though neither are in the conversation with Seinfeld. i was speaking more as to dramas anyway, sitcoms would be a different conversation.
February 11th, 2016 at 11:41 AM ^
Holy crap... and I woke up this morning expecting it to be just an ordinary day!
February 11th, 2016 at 11:46 AM ^
Whoa! So there are time travel implications?!
February 11th, 2016 at 1:05 PM ^
So on the 11th of each month, we will bring back this weighty topic.
February 11th, 2016 at 1:11 PM ^
and they're not all good. Surely the Packers will go back and draft Barry Sanders instead of Tony Mandarich (Baahaha!), and that would suck.
February 11th, 2016 at 11:42 AM ^
other than to help us understand the universe better.
February 11th, 2016 at 11:49 AM ^
It has massive implications, including philosophical.
It means that we can potentially "see" the initiation of the Big Bang itself, since RF energy, the current only means we have of observing the universe, only allows us to see up to about 400k years after the Big Bang. Why? The baby universe was too dense prior to that to allow the propagation of RF energy necessary to allow us to observe today.
But gravitational waves should have been able to travel unabated even through the dense initial stages of the universe. They're just so darned tiny and hard to detect! But we now KNOW they're out there.
Who knows where this might lead? A means of interstellar communication? Another way of detecting life? A more efficient way of explaining/detecting dark energy/matter? The universal boundary is the limit.
Once in a generation type discovery.
Very exciting.
February 11th, 2016 at 12:27 PM ^
I see the Big Bang pretty much every night, TBS airs reruns all the time.
February 11th, 2016 at 12:31 PM ^
I've read the theory that since changes in measurable mass (i.e. gravity) are instantly detectable, that one can communicate faster than light if one can manipulate gravitational fields.
I also read in one of the articles covering the announcement a statement that gravity waves travel at the speed of light. Is that correct; did the author misunderstand?
Please comment.
February 11th, 2016 at 12:39 PM ^
Gravitational waves travel at the speed of light, so we could not use this for superluminal communication.
Changes in mass/gravity are not instantly detectable. They were in Newton's theory, but this was not consistent with special relativity and this contradiction was the impetus behind Einstein seeking out a general theory of relativity.
February 11th, 2016 at 12:43 PM ^
NOT FTL.
But transmissable THROUGH matter freely.
February 11th, 2016 at 12:47 PM ^
"NOT FTL. But transmissable"
Reminds me of a date I once had....
February 12th, 2016 at 12:37 AM ^
Sounds like more of a case of FML than FTL
/s
February 12th, 2016 at 12:37 AM ^
Sounds like more of a case of FML than FTL
/s
February 11th, 2016 at 12:44 PM ^
February 11th, 2016 at 12:56 PM ^
I cant speak for everyone here but I for one always make time in my day to catch up on their latest highjinks.
February 11th, 2016 at 12:57 PM ^
OK, I am clueless on ultra high level physics, but help me figure something here. If gravity waves travel at the speed of light, and the Big Bang (I prefer HSK, by the way) gave off gravity waves, wouldn't those waves be "further out" from the Big Bang point than we are, and therefore we will never detect the Big Bang's gravity waves? The only way we could ever detect Big Bang gravity waves would be if some matter from the Big Bang, at some point, traveled faster than light, no?
February 11th, 2016 at 1:05 PM ^
I'm glad someone else asked this question so I didn't look like the idiot.
February 11th, 2016 at 1:13 PM ^
You're welc.....HEY.
February 11th, 2016 at 1:18 PM ^
Glad your sarcasm meter was tuned properly.
I'm seriously amazed by the knowledge on this board. It's scary. I honestly had a similar question as you, so I'm hoping someone responds in a non-snarky manner to satiate both of our scientific appetites.
February 11th, 2016 at 1:07 PM ^
As far as I know, the Big Bang didn't happen at a point. It happened everywhere.
February 11th, 2016 at 1:20 PM ^
February 11th, 2016 at 1:43 PM ^
I just can't grasp this concept. Seriously. But maybe Matthew McConaughey can.