The LIGO experiment may have detected gravitational waves- more information Thursday!

[JohnnyMo]

[QUOTE=mooman1080;49729173]Does this mean we're a tiny bit closer to understanding how the fuck gravity works?[/QUOTE]

This is a more of a confirmation that our current understanding of gravity is pretty good. No one believes it's a complete understanding, but it shows that general relativity holds quite well even in regions with very strong gravitational effects.

[Hollywood SN]

So when do we start using it to make Supermen.

[Fourier]

Everywhere on Facebook, where they posted about this discovery there is 50% of religious nutjobs who claim their religion knew it already 1000 years ago, 10% of people who said scientists are retarded for "rediscovering" things, 10% of people who say funding this research was retarded when we could feed the poor, .. maybe 10% of people were genuinely amazed and cheered it.

What a scientific community have to put up with :v:.

[Killuah]

What's kinda important in this is that it opens the funding for better detectors.

IIRC Dark Matter would cause Gravitational Waves too so this is pretty much one of the only ways to "see" it.

[JohnnyMo]

[QUOTE=Killuah;49732582]What's kinda important in this is that it opens the funding for better detectors.

IIRC Dark Matter would cause Gravitational Waves too so this is pretty much one of the only ways to "see" it.[/QUOTE]

Anything that interacts gravitationally at all can generate gravitational waves.