What do you get when two black holes meet...?

[JohnRoberts]

One black hole and gravity waves.... 8)

I am currently re-reading the "brief history of time " by Hawking,  and saw in the newspaper today that scientists discovered gravity wave evidence of two black holes combining...  far away and something like 65x the mass of our sun...

JR

 

[Andy Peters]

One black hole and gravity waves.... 8)

I am currently re-reading the "brief history of time " by Hawking,  and saw in the newspaper today that scientists discovered gravity wave evidence of two black holes combining...  far away and something like 65x the mass of our sun...

Lucky for us this event happened a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

 

[mattamatta]

Lucky for us this event happened a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

 

[bluebird]

Wonder if discovering "gravity waves" help to figure out "The Theory Of Everything"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything

 

[zamproject]

and saw in the newspaper today that scientists discovered gravity wave evidence of two black holes combining... 

Hello
Yes, the third detection have been announced two days ago  8)
for those interested with LIGO : http://www.ligo.org/
Best
Zam

 

[JohnRoberts]

Perhaps gravity waves are the "disturbances in the force" reported in science fiction?  ;D

JR 

 

[ruffrecords]

Black tights?

Cheers

Ian

 

[pucho812]

I thought this was a dirty joke from the title

 

[joaquins]

I thought this was a dirty joke from the title

Me too, very disappointing...

JS

 

[JohnRoberts]

I like a good dirty joke just like the next guy, but I try to set a good example around here (like occasionally talking about audio electronics.)

JR

 

[Sammas]

But the earth is flat, don't you know? Many people around the globe share my view. 

 

[Phrazemaster]

I like a good dirty joke just like the next guy, but I try to set a good example around here (like occasionally talking about audio electronics.)

JR

Well, if a mic preamp fell into a black hole could you fix it?

 

[Phrazemaster]

But the earth is flat, don't you know? Many people around the globe share my view. 

I think you're circumnavigating the issue.

 

[midwayfair]

Wonder if discovering "gravity waves" help to figure out "The Theory Of Everything"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything

Gravitational waves. Sorry to be pedantic, but gravity waves are something very different!

The answer to your question is "probably not." Gravitational waves are more important to studying the early universe, and having observed them last year (or was it a couple years ago now? I forget) filled in a hole in our observations confirming certain aspects of the theory of general relativity. (They were predicted by not confirmed observed for a long time.)

What WOULD be a major discovery toward a theory of everything IS something related to gravity, however, and that's a force-carrying particle of gravity -- AKA a graviton, the gravitational equivalent of a photon.

 

[Phrazemaster]

the damn trouble with anything quantum related is the observer effect - we tend to observe what we think we will observe. I just wonder how this has filtered out into our equations and current "beliefs" or "facts" we think we know...

 

[joaquins]

the damn trouble with anything quantum related is the observer effect - we tend to observe what we think we will observe. I just wonder how this has filtered out into our equations and current "beliefs" or "facts" we think we know...

That has something to do with 5 sigma confirmation, to see an event very rare in the rules we know, but of course, the best we can do is to say that it supports the theories we have and make it stronger, but that's only our best explanation of it, not the total truth.

JS

 

[Phrazemaster]

That has something to do with 5 sigma confirmation, to see an event very rare in the rules we know, but of course, the best we can do is to say that it supports the theories we have and make it stronger, but that's only our best explanation of it, not the total truth.

JS

Well-stated.