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Nowai! I thought we were years from that. But I guess we need more tests confirming it, though I guess this is just another evidence that stuff we extrapolate from the General Theory of Relativity tend to be correct :)
What is the comment on this from our in-house theoretic physician @steve ?
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Haha, I wonder if "theoretic physician" actually means the medical doctor "physician"...
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@mmn The LIGO result is pretty solid. I read their publication in Physical Review Letters. It is a solid case. I want VIRGO, the European experiment, to also see thing like this though the lesson from today's announcement is that you have to be both lucky and have a good instrument. I have no doubt that VIRGO will see something too. I would say with comfort that a new kind of astronomy was born today, one using space and time itself as the probe of the cosmos.