I know I'm a little late on this topic but what do you guys think of the discover by LIGO of gravitational waves because of two black holes colliding?
Link: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20160211
>>26804
We had this thread when it was still current news.
It's pretty nice. I'm a bit excited.
>>26804
It looks like a pig snout.
The two black holes were estimating to be colliding at half the speed of light. Such huge condensed masses moving so fast before meeting. In the last few kilometers they even made some sound.
Honestly it's the stuff that fuels my spacephobia. Just imagining myself floating in space some distance from the event and observing.
But back to the issue, this is very exciting as we now have a new means of gravity radar to see the universe, and especially black holes beyond the event horizon. What's more it's pretty chilling how Einstein was right yet again and his theory has so far been flawless, something that almost doesn't happen as theories are almost always inaccurate on some level.
>>26804
>meanwhile on earth
"the earth is flat!"
Amazing to see how Einstein was this far ahead in his time and people today can't agree that the earth is a sphere.
Devolution?
>>26999
he would admit we can't be certain 3 dimensions exist outside of our primitive senses, so why would you assume anything?
>>26999
>and people today can't agree that the earth is a sphere.
fringe lunacy nobody else takes seriously.
the earth has been accepted as spherical since the time of ancient greeks. even the christian 'dark' ages continued to view the world as a sphere
