Scientists Won The Nobel Prize For Detecting Gravitational Waves

This year's Physics Nobel Prize goes to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish for their efforts that helped lead to the first measurement of gravitational waves in 2015 by the LIGO team.

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[daniyal._.]

my brain is exploding save me 😂😂😂

[thomasingram]

LIGO facility is Louisiana State University property and a LSU professor was one of the scientists rewarded with the prize. Geaux Tigers!

[charlesbromberick]

I knew Bernie Schutz as an undergraduate at Clarkson and feel very proud of his part in the LIGO team effort.

[pepbean]

Imagine people from the future looking back at this, like how we look back at Albert Einstein

[brainstormingsharing]

Absolutely well done and definitely keep it up!!! 👍👍👍👍👍

[Moozy-Fruit]

This epic music is flooding my brain with epic adventurers ill have in the future.

[BorysMadrawski]

Andrzej Trautman ~60 years ago proved with his mathematics equations that gravitational waves carry the energy, so it's possible for us to receive this information, what has been done in LIGO.

[cymoonrbacpro]

*The case of mistaken identity* please do not remove this comment!
The LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) project when analyzed is actually a seismic device which measures vibration in the Sub atomic scale. The reported chirp signal detection that is declared to be gravitational wave could be a signal related to quantum noise.
*What is quantum noise?*
Quantum noise may be observed in any system where conventional sources of noise (industrial noise, vibrations, fluctuations of voltage in the electric power supply, thermal noise due to Brownian motion, etc.) are suppressed and yet random vibration can still be detected. This phenomenon is considered to be part of the ‘quantum foam’ that is ever present, which cannot be filtered out.
This being a reality of the physical world, *it becomes plausible that the chirp (gravitational waves) is actually related the quantum noise phenomenon and not with a cosmic event, such as black holes a neutron stars.*
*What is the Quantum foam?*
Quantum foam or spacetime foam is the fluctuation of spacetime on very small scales due to quantum mechanics. The idea was devised by John Wheeler in 1955. Evidence for it was predicted back in 1947 by Dutch physicists Hendrik Casimir and Dirk Polder. Fermilab senior experimental physicist Don Lincoln explained the so-called "Casimir Effect" and its effects have been measured.
*Conclusion The LIGO detection is an exercise in bias confirmation.*
The LIGO chirps are actually signals extracted from sea of Quantum noise and misinterpreted as gravitational waves.

*Faulty collaborating evidence:* Please do not remove this comment.
The collaborating evidence presented for these gravitational waves is gamma ray bursts that seem to be correlated with the signal chips. But there is a problem with this evidence, that is, the difficulty in Establishing an ironclad cause and effect relationship between commonly occurring gamma burst events and gravitational Chirps. Every day, the sky lights up with a spectacular flash of gamma-rays coming from deep space. The brightness of this flash of gamma-rays can temporarily overwhelm all other gamma-ray sources in the universe. The burst can last from a fraction of a second to over a thousand seconds. The commonality of these GammaRay burst makes it impossible to connect these events with the GW signal with any high degree of confidence.

*Time to panic or time to invent another story*
The LIGO may not be Real GW signals; Recently the LIGO projects are detecting more than expected events. As reported by this article titled “Synopsis: Did Black Hole “Mimickers” Produce LIGO Signal?”

[shreerang_]

I would sacrifice my life to go on a long trip to find *wormholes*, I will leave everything, everyone
~a true astronomy lover

[tristanjurek]

Saw the other day three LIGO observatories detected gravitational waves and now we may be able to triangulate to their exact location... shit is crazy but so interesting

[markanthonyando]

I hope the cash prize for science discoveries/breakthroughs is big since they usually have the most impact in our daily lives...

[McMillanEwan]

Could there be a way to catch a ride on the detected gravitational waves to accelerate the speed of an object travelling through space?

[varunprasadathi]

Why do I have a feeling of already seeing this video a long time ago?

[keiehs]

idk why but i feel proud that the scientists accomplished this kind of discovery

[muneeb]

One day this shits gunna come up in the curriculum

[BorysMadrawski]

Einstein didn't believed that gravitational waves are something real.
Andrzej Trautman started working worked on this when Einstein was still with us and managed to correct a Einstein mistake in formula what makes Einstein to publish another work (instead of correcting the previous).
Andrzej Trautman gave the theoretical background for all the subsequent discoveries in the are of gravitational waves.

[abdullahsabith]

This is the exact same video, search that title I written and it is the same video but slightly abridged. Just leave that no problem science is science and thanks Tech Insider

[Kid_Legend__Life]

1:31 wouldn't that mean that there's have to be constantly aligned or else it wouldn't work?

[cymoonrbacpro]

The LIGO may not be Real GW signals; Recently the LIGO projects are detecting more than expected events. As reported by this article titled “Synopsis: Did Black Hole “Mimickers” Produce LIGO Signal?”
The report continued ; Recently detected gravitational waves might not be a signature of black holes but of other massive objects that lack an event horizon. .... Although the presumed source was a black hole merger, a new theoretical analysis shows that other hypothetical objects, like so-called gravastars, could produce a similar gravitational wave signal. *Or it maybe an issue of just quantum noise.*

[lainworshipper]

I just want to explore some black holes.