Influx wrote:Are you @#$%@#$ me?If you look up insanity in a dictionary you will find that quote as a definition!
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God I hate smart ass, hypocritical, swindlers. Especially when they drink so well at the public trough.
Instead of going back to the drawing board, LIGO is looking forward to 2014 when it will be able to look "10 times further" into the universe with their device. To my way of thinking, 10 times zero is still zero, and the money would be better spent on something useful.
Null findings enable true scientists to know they’re looking in the wrong direction and that it’s time to go back to the drawing board and develop a different hypothesis. They also enable us to stop needlessly worrying about something that doesn’t matter. Null results are most vital to the progress of science and are the source of Albert Einstein’s famous saying: “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
In fact, a big earmark of junk science and pseudoscience — or science being misused to sell us something or advance a special interest — is continuing to test and retest a belief long after it’s been disproven in well-designed studies. Building a body of research can lead unsuspecting consumers to believe that there’s a body of evidence in support of a belief. All studies are not created equal and the weight of the evidence does not come by tallying up the number of studies on one side or another.
Influx wrote:I mean, that's like saying, if I invest a million in the stock market and loose all the money, that that is a good thing!
LIGO Listens for Gravitational Echoes of the Birth of the Universe
An investigation by the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration has significantly advanced our understanding of the early evolution of the universe.
Analysis of data taken over a two-year period, from 2005 to 2007, has set the most stringent limits yet on the amount of gravitational waves that could have come from the Big Bang in the gravitational wave frequency band where LIGO can observe. In doing so, the gravitational-wave scientists have put new constraints on the details of how the universe looked in its earliest moments.
Reality Check wrote: The Hulse-Taylor observations gave strong indirect evidence for gravitational waves (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_B1913%2B16).
Reality Check wrote: The LIGO (and other experiments) are designed to directly measure gravitational waves. This means that they have to be very sensitive to detect the weak effects of gravitational waves and also that there has to be a source for them.
Reality Check wrote: Null results are good science in that they tell us about the possible sources of gravitational waves, i.e. that they are as not as energetic or common as we thought.
Reality Check wrote: This is from the LIGO blog (http://ligonews.blogspot.com/)
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Reality Check wrote:The LIGO (and other experiments) are designed to directly measure gravitational waves. This means that they have to be very sensitive to detect the weak effects of gravitational waves and also that there has to be a source for them. Null results are good science in that they tell us about the possible sources of gravitational waves, i.e. that they are as not as energetic or common as we thought.
Influx wrote:... LIGO is now producing scientific results. The nondetection of a signal from GRB070201 ...
The analysis revealed no signs of gravitational waves ...
Are you @#$%@#$ me?If you look up insanity in a dictionary you will find that quote as a definition!
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I mean, that's like saying, if I invest a million in the stock market and loose all the money, that that is a good thing!
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