Evidence for gravitational waves

[infamous]

Check out this address http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1473_1.asp

Seems Albert was right after all.

[C1ay]

Originally Posted by infamous

Check out this address http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1473_1.asp

Seems Albert was right after all.

That is a good article. Here's a copy of the press release from when this pair was discovered.

[infamous]

Originally Posted by C1ay

That is a good article. Here's a copy of the press release from when this pair was discovered.

Thanks C1ay; Because this binary pulsar is positioned almost perfectly on edge to our field of view "88 degree angle", I believe we can expect a wealth of new information to be forth coming. I'm all excited, how about you??

[UncleAl]

Deeply relativistic neutron star/pulsar binaries.

Science 303(5661) 1143;1153 (2004)
http://arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0401086
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312071
http://relativity.livingreviews.org/...3-5/index.html

[Aki]

Speaking of gravitational waves, any news from LIGO and LISA?

[infamous]

Originally Posted by UncleAl

Deeply relativistic neutron star/pulsar binaries.

Science 303(5661) 1143;1153 (2004)
http://arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0401086
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312071
http://relativity.livingreviews.org/...3-5/index.html

Thanks UncleAl for these contributions.

[eMTee]

What gets me is that Albert E. was the greatest scientitist of all time, and yet even he didn't believe in creation by chance, but rather creation threw inteligent design.

[Tormod]

Originally Posted by eMTee

What gets me is that Albert E. was the greatest scientitist of all time, and yet even he didn't believe in creation by chance, but rather creation threw inteligent design.

This is a topic for our Philosophy of Science forum. If you want to discuss this, please start a new thread there.

[maddog]

Originally Posted by Aki

Speaking of gravitational waves, any news from LIGO and LISA?

What I have heard of LIGO is they are still searching. I am concerned they are
magnitudes off in resolution (maybe even as far as 1000 to 1e6 times).

From LISA, last I heard funding is still there and construction is under way...
It is expected to be accurate enough to detect most expected events. Now if Neutron
star mergers can be frequent enough, then maybe one or both devices can detect
such a wave. What is so much guesswork is we don't know if there are such
retardation effects on wave propagation to the fabric of space. No data to measure.

maddog

[eMTee]

that was not a thread, but a truthfull statment. But I am thinking to start one...should I?