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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I know! Next stop interstellar!

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By *irtyGirlWoman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

Sorry... I was doing star jumps.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

my pouting is the cause

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

OMG apparently this means the earth will jiggle like jello .......

I'm not wearing heels that day....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jelly on a plate,

Jelly on a plate,

Wibble wobble,

Wibble wobble,

Jelly on a plate

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Scientists become so animated when they are excited,,,,,

I just seen one undo the top button on his shirt,,,

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

Really when you think about it The Earth is just an enormous anal bead being slowly inserted into a giant space arse.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

What's the deal?

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden


"What's the deal?"

The space arse is sucking us up.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Really when you think about it The Earth is just an enormous anal bead being slowly inserted into a giant space arse."

Isn't that what professor Brian Cox said in his last TV series?

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By *entaur_UKMan
over a year ago

Cannock

Next major announcement, E. T.

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden


"Really when you think about it The Earth is just an enormous anal bead being slowly inserted into a giant space arse.

Isn't that what professor Brian Cox said in his last TV series? "

lol pretty much.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Apparently Professor Heinz Wolff has become so excited he just admitted his accent is fake and he's really from Birmingham...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ripples in time made of galaxy chocolate

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Ok, so have announced that they have observed gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of spacetime, in a discovery that could completely change our understanding of the universe.

Gravitational waves were first predicted by Einstein 100 years ago, but have never been directly observed. This is a vindication of Einstein’s theory.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35524440

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

Should we wave back? It sounds rude not to

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Should we wave back? It sounds rude not to "

Woohee? Hellooo? * Waves at the gravitational waves.

See, that has so changed my perception of this world.

If I eat a really big curry, will that make my wave bigger?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Scientists become so animated when they are excited,,,,,

I just seen one undo the top button on his shirt,,, "

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Always makes me laugh listening to the absolute fever they whip themselves into over something massive like this... Then they played the sound of it back on the radio... Errr that's a black and decker drill with the bushes nearly gone!

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

In sure they will be friendly waves if we wave nicely too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wasn't Einstein the bright lad!

L

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Wasn't Einstein the bright lad!

L"

I thought that was Edison?

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By *entaur_UKMan
over a year ago

Cannock


"Wasn't Einstein the bright lad!

L

I thought that was Edison? "

That calls for the light bulb emoticon.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Wasn't Einstein the bright lad!

L"

Yes but know we are left with question

Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath

the chicken?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Wasn't Einstein the bright lad!

L

Yes but know we are left with question

Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath

the chicken? "

Or did the chicken use a gravitational anomaly, travel through subspace and bypas the actual road altogether?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Ok, so have announced that they have observed gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of spacetime, in a discovery that could completely change our understanding of the universe.

Gravitational waves were first predicted by Einstein 100 years ago, but have never been directly observed. This is a vindication of Einstein’s theory.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35524440"

its actually really exciting news . I have been following the story all day

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Wasn't Einstein the bright lad!

L

Yes but know we are left with question

Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath

the chicken?

Or did the chicken use a gravitational anomaly, travel through subspace and bypas the actual road altogether?"

Beats me.....

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

I blame that Katrina woman

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By *rinking-in-laCouple
over a year ago

Bristol


" "

And yet we are still arguing over fucking irrelevant stuff like who gets to burn the most decomposed jurassic plankton and whose homophobic misogynist living on a cloud is better than another.

Perspective time maybe?

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Why did they have to find one a billion light years away? Why not 3 miles away?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That would be a really bad thing!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Does this mean gravity will disappear

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

It sounds great, but I'm not sure what real difference it shall make to human kind

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By *ettyboop61Woman
over a year ago

St Neots

you been looking at my pics.....lol Yeh I have got a wobbly bit lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wasn't this the only of Einstein's theories yet to have been proved? Until now!

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By *rinking-in-laCouple
over a year ago

Bristol


"It sounds great, but I'm not sure what real difference it shall make to human kind "

We can really start to understand how things are constructed and how energy is transferred across the universe in fundamentally more powerful and subtle ways than we ever had the ability to before.

There really s a long way to go before the benefits are tangible but it s a huge huge leap forward.

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

The debate has now moved on. Is space-time curvy, large, ample or fabulous?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The debate has now moved on. Is space-time curvy, large, ample or fabulous? "

Hahaha!

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

I think a large multiple collision of these waves hit me as I stood upon the scales earlier. And I didn't feel any benefit in the time continuum - I probably looked older, not younger, afterwards.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZqUNEHYZgQ

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By *ohnaronMan
over a year ago

london

A billion years ago two black holes said let's get together no ones listening

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By *razedcatMan
over a year ago

London / Herts

I love it when big breakthroughs occur in science. They're oddly unifying, as though our entire species stands to benefit from them

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

I take an interest in this stuff and it's been on the news all day but I'm buggered if I can work out why it's sooo important.

Anyone?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm usually somewhat savvy when it comes to stuff like this, but I'm still clueless

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Ok, so long as it's not just me.

But if someone can tell me I'd be interested to hear.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Say hello -gravity wave goodbye?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

And yet we are still arguing over fucking irrelevant stuff like who gets to burn the most decomposed jurassic plankton and whose homophobic misogynist living on a cloud is better than another.

Perspective time maybe?"

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Yeah we just need perspective to see the perspective!.

There's a reason why nearly all religions deny science, it proves them as the charlatans they always were.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Perhaps they are thinking we can use the waves to travel across outer space. Like interstellar surfing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

And yet we are still arguing over fucking irrelevant stuff like who gets to burn the most decomposed jurassic plankton and whose homophobic misogynist living on a cloud is better than another.

Perspective time maybe?.

Yeah we just need perspective to see the perspective!.

There's a reason why nearly all religions deny science, it proves them as the charlatans they always were.

"

I am yet to hear the reaction of the major religions to the discovery of gravitational waves. I suspect it might be something along the lines of, "Oh, so there are gravitational waves."

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Yes, but does anybody know why it's so important?

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

East Sussex


"Yes, but does anybody know why it's so important?"

It confirms Einstein's theory of relativity and we can look back in time even further than we could before. We have the opportunity to observe black holes colliding and we can observe the universe in entirely new ways.

No, me neither

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By *r H and Good PetCouple
over a year ago

Nottingham


"Yes, but does anybody know why it's so important?

It confirms Einstein's theory of relativity and we can look back in time even further than we could before. We have the opportunity to observe black holes colliding and we can observe the universe in entirely new ways.

No, me neither "

Basically this^.

It's like asking why electromagnetic waves were important the day after discovering them. Lol. No one knew what they could be used for back then.

Same with these. They prove a theory (and the only reason so many were sceptical before is because they were so tiny so couldn't be detected. Like 10 to the power -21 tiny. Lol).

I'm excited about their use as mentioned above, but what else we could discover off the back of them, in the future.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"Ok, so have announced that they have observed gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of spacetime, in a discovery that could completely change our understanding of the universe.

Gravitational waves were first predicted by Einstein 100 years ago, but have never been directly observed. This is a vindication of Einstein’s theory.

.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35524440"

^ As stated...

But why it is soooooo important?

That's the bit that eludes me

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By *verysmileMan
over a year ago

CANTERBURY

Apparently, the application of quantum theory to the prediction of the doppler effect will determine when my TNT parcel will arrive.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex


"Apparently, the application of quantum theory to the prediction of the doppler effect will determine when my TNT parcel will arrive."

Yea but they'll still leave it on your door step in full view of the road

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By *verysmileMan
over a year ago

CANTERBURY


"Apparently, the application of quantum theory to the prediction of the doppler effect will determine when my TNT parcel will arrive.

Yea but they'll still leave it on your door step in full view of the road "

Just looked....they did!

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By *enard ArgenteMan
over a year ago

London and France


"Ok, so have announced that they have observed gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of spacetime, in a discovery that could completely change our understanding of the universe.

Gravitational waves were first predicted by Einstein 100 years ago, but have never been directly observed. This is a vindication of Einstein’s theory.

.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35524440

^ As stated...

But why it is soooooo important?

That's the bit that eludes me"

Because gravitational waves still bear ( theoretically) the " imprint " of the " Big Bang " the moment the universe was created; so we may be able to determine much more about that moment; which may open up even better insights into physics.

Which in turn, may advance many other things....

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By *verysmileMan
over a year ago

CANTERBURY

Isn't there a theory that the static that you get on an analogue TV when it is not tuned in to a channel, effectively the electromagnetic resonance of the big bang?

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

East Sussex


"Ok, so have announced that they have observed gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of spacetime, in a discovery that could completely change our understanding of the universe.

Gravitational waves were first predicted by Einstein 100 years ago, but have never been directly observed. This is a vindication of Einstein’s theory.

.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35524440

^ As stated...

But why it is soooooo important?

That's the bit that eludes me

Because gravitational waves still bear ( theoretically) the " imprint " of the " Big Bang " the moment the universe was created; so we may be able to determine much more about that moment; which may open up even better insights into physics.

Which in turn, may advance many other things....

"

Listening to the radio earlier and they said we might be able to photograph the big bang. I know it's incredibly significant by the way it's being talked about but my knowledge of physics doesn't allow me to realise the full potential.

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By *anchestercubMan
over a year ago

manchester & NI


"Wasn't Einstein the bright lad!

L

I thought that was Edison? "

I thought it was the Ewoks.

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By *verysmileMan
over a year ago

CANTERBURY


"Wasn't Einstein the bright lad!

L

I thought that was Edison?

I thought it was the Ewoks. "

No, Ewoks are what you cook Chinese food in.

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By *anchestercubMan
over a year ago

manchester & NI


"Wasn't Einstein the bright lad!

L

I thought that was Edison?

I thought it was the Ewoks.

No, Ewoks are what you cook Chinese food in."

I wondered why my Kung Pao had a side of hair.

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By *verysmileMan
over a year ago

CANTERBURY


"Wasn't Einstein the bright lad!

L

I thought that was Edison?

I thought it was the Ewoks.

No, Ewoks are what you cook Chinese food in.

I wondered why my Kung Pao had a side of hair. "

No No No....Kung Pao was that 1970's TV series with David Carradine

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By *rinking-in-laCouple
over a year ago

Bristol


"Isn't there a theory that the static that you get on an analogue TV when it is not tuned in to a channel, effectively the electromagnetic resonance of the big bang?"

Some of it is.

Lots of it is just random electromagnetic detritus from many other sources. Some cool and some mundane.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I'm really really excited about gravitational waves because now there's one more thing I don't understand anything about the universe.....

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen


"Wasn't this the only of Einstein's theories yet to have been proved? Until now!

"

No, just about everything that Einstein predicted in his Special and General theories has been validated by practical observation and application e.g. your satnav wouldn't work accurately unless it used corrections calculated from his work.

The observation of Gravitational waves is the last major validation of his General theory.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My basic understanding is that general gravitational theory works best on big things, quantum theory works on small things, confirming the existence of gravitational waves is a step closer to an all encompassing theory for big and small things - but I might be wrong, I often am

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By *enard ArgenteMan
over a year ago

London and France


"My basic understanding is that general gravitational theory works best on big things, quantum theory works on small things, confirming the existence of gravitational waves is a step closer to an all encompassing theory for big and small things - but I might be wrong, I often am"

It's very possible that it is another step towards the " grand unified theory", linking all the theories.....

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By *etanreadyCouple
over a year ago

dover


"I blame that Katrina woman "

I know my g/ff has done some naught things in the past but I didn't know she was responsible for that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Yes, but does anybody know why it's so important?"

I heard something about it a few days ago and a bloke involved in searching for them said it was the equivalent to having a new sense in space ie. as well as being able to look, they could now listen.

Bit like watching porn without the sound off.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Ok, so have announced that they have observed gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of spacetime, in a discovery that could completely change our understanding of the universe.

Gravitational waves were first predicted by Einstein 100 years ago, but have never been directly observed. This is a vindication of Einstein’s theory.

.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35524440"

Actually....speaking as a physics graduate. The ability to measure very very very small gravitational "ripples" from events that occurred over a billion light years away (so over a billion years ago) is great. We can use the technology to learn more about the cosmos.

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BUT! (Very big but). We have known about gravitational waves since the time of Issaac Newton. Gravitational waves occur when two (or more) massive bodies interact. The ones on the news were black holes a huge distance away. Like any other waves or ripples...as they spread they become smaller! We are only now able to measure such small ones.

But......here it is! We have all seen them many many times. And was explained by Newton hundreds of years ago. TIDES!

As the Earth rotates the moons gravitational field pulls on the Earth and causes tides. However the moon also orbits the Earth so sometimes (new/crescent moon) it is on the same side of Earth as the Sun. So the interaction of both of these bodies causes spring (bigger) tides for a few days once a month. The regular/periodic change in the height of the high tides are gravitational waves!

Einstein did NOT PREDICT them. He simply explained them in a different way.

Newton described gravity and gravitational waves in terms of forces and periodic changes in these forces as other bodies interacted.

Einstein described gravity as curvature in spacetime and gravitational waves as distortion in this curvature.

Not a new prediction...just a different way of looking at it!

Both were genii either way!

Hope that clears things up!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've just had a look at this, and I've disproved it, its a false alarm, and I'm going to be publishing my findings online as soon as I can get lord lucan off the printer, I swear him and Elvis have no respect for science

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