Einstein does it again. LIGO finally works the way it was intended.





Yottawatt \YOT-ah-wat\ n.:
1 million billion billion watts

That’s a lotta watts. And a lot more — 3.6 x 1049 watts, or 36 septillion yottawatts — blasted out of the black hole collision that the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory detected in September. Rather than a flash of light, the power came out as ripples in spacetime. As the black holes merged, three suns’ worth of mass transformed into gravitational wave energy in a few milliseconds, researchers report in Physical Review Letters on February 12.

“[It] created a violent storm in the fabric of space and time,” Caltech astrophysicist Kip Thorne said at a February news conference announcing the discovery. The storm’s power, he said, “was 50 times greater than all of the power put out by all of the stars in the universe put together.”

Hi MetalWing, good article. I'm sure the guys who put the numbers together did a good extrapolation in their estimation.

We live in the Milkyway galaxy. We can only see a portion of the observable universe. One scientist put it this way.
What is the size of the universe?
The part of the Universe that we can see, referred to as the observable universe, has a diameter of about 93 billion light years (28 billion parsecs) and a volume of 4×1083 liters. The size of the whole Universe is not known - it may be infinite.

So not sure how they can claim; The storm’s power, he said, “was 50 times greater than all of the power put out by all of the stars in the universe put together.”

Maybe they meant the observable universe. We're in an arm on the Milkyway (1 of 4). We are in a very isolated part of the universe. Also were surrounded by astroid fields. If we want to see all the stars, we're going to have to move to a better neibor hood.

The LIGO project doesn't use light to see distances. It uses light to measure distortions in space/time caused by gravitational disturbances. Einstein's General Relativity gives the math for many mass-energy events than can be observed by other means, but his theory of gravity waves was not technologically possible to be tested until recently.

Now that gravity waves can be measured, the tech can and will be improved to measure much smaller events just like seismology was in the past. However, the event described was measured and the data presented should be taken at face value. LIGO did it's job.

One could assume that the term "all stars" implied "all stars in the known universe".

The above proves nothing more than welfare for the scientific community which provides us with more of the same politicized science we have been getting for the last 100 years.

They proved they can measure 'something' but there is no evidence it was gravity.

I keep this 17000 volt transformer that I picked up when I was a kid for show (off) and tell for a science project (jacobs ladder) when I was in the 5th grade. I still have it because I get the biggest charge out of giving people the wire and letting them play with the arc to try to see the longest arc they can produce. I do this to prove a point. Like the movie the entity where you can see something invisible impressing upon the womans skin this works the same way. Everyone bar none have dropped the wire when they thought they got a shock when in fact they did not. Breaking the arc often times produces an invisible force that can be physically felt as an instantaneous pressure upon their hand. Like someone throwing a cup of water at it. Now this force can be felt several inches away. (Very strange feeling btw) That said I can buy that they proved that the 'ether' or 'aether' exists, (which einstein renamed to 'fabric' while denying ether exists) but not a gravity wave of all the ridiculous theories. Its all about wordsmithing games and endlessly milking the taxpayers.






speed of light is not constant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T0d7o8X2-E

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/2322/teslas-theory-of-gravity

How is science suppressed even today? From a physics site:





Aether concept

It is important to undertand that Tesla's Aether concept is not analogous to classical aether theories. Tesla's aether was in fact a medium, or 'perfect fluid' that wets everything in which we are immersed, acting as an 'independent carrier'. It behaves as a solid to light (high frequency) and is transparent to matter, while it's effects, according to Tesla, can be felt through inertia.


"The primary substance, thrown into infinitesimal whirls of prodigious velocity, becomes gross matter; the force subsiding, the motion ceases and matter disappears, reverting to the primary substance".
Nikola Tesla - New York American - July 6, 1930


"According to an adopted theory, every ponderable atom is differentiated from a tenuous (fragile, vague) fluid, filling all space merely by spinning motion, as a whirl of water in a calm lake. By being set in movement this fluid, the ether, becomes gross matter. Its movement arrested (halted), the primary substance reverts to its normal state. It appears, then, possible for man through harnessed energy of the medium and suitable agencies for starting and stopping ether whirls to cause matter to form and disappear. At his command, almost without effort on his part, old worlds would vanish and new ones would spring into being. He could alter the size of this planet, control its seasons, adjust its distance from the sun, guide it on its eternal journey along any path he might choose, through the depths of the universe. He could make planets collide and produce his suns and stars, his heat and light; he could originate life in all its infinite forms. To cause at will the birth and death of matter would be man's grandest deed, which would give him the mastery of physical creation, make him fulfill his ultimate destiny."
Nikola Tesla - New York Times - April 21, 1908


http://www.metaresearch.org/cosmology/speed_of_gravity.asp

Photons that travel in free space slower than the speed of light
http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.3987


The make/break of only a few watts of arc can cause you to be physically pushed, what evidence did ligo provide to prove that the most probable conclusion is not the case here?