Einstein's gravitational waves 'seen' from black holes

[SlyPokerDog]

This is truly YUGE!

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-env...ng&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central

 

[jlprk]

A hundred years after electromagnetic waves were found to propagate, every home, office, and factory is full of electrical devices. A hundred years from today's proof of concept, every home, office, and factory will be full of devices using gravitational energy instead of electricity.

I plan to see it.

 

[Denny Crane]

The NSA is already figuring out how to spy on everyone using gravitational waves.

 

[jlprk]

When scientists figure out how to transmit this new energy through wires, then miniaturize them into chips, there will be a lot of new toys under the Christmas tree, which will be lit up by similar wires leading to wall plugs connected to a grid of gravitational substations throughout the city.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

Heavy.

 

[jlprk]

Don't worry, Denny and Brainiac. As I play with my new toys, I'll remember you, stuck up there in the dead higher dimensions.

Empty space has properties, which we call forces. Electromagnetic, nuclear, gravity...and next in line, the Q force, also called EM...on which devices will be designed after the gravitation century.

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=39214.0

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=39004.2800

 

[riverman]

A hundred years after electromagnetic waves were found to propagate, every home, office, and factory is full of electrical devices. A hundred years from today's proof of concept, every home, office, and factory will be full of devices using gravitational energy instead of electricity.

I plan to see it.

Now I understand why you post after dark...you're a vampire! A hundred years from now you'll still be chuckling about the good old days of crank phones and party lines..while playing with your new glow in the dark toys!

 

[oldfisherman]

Al Gore invented gravitational waves.

 

[crowTrobot]

Empty space has properties, which we call forces.

Forces (force carrying particles) arise from different quantum fields within space. They aren't necessarily properties of space itself.

 

[crowTrobot]

A hundred years from today's proof of concept, every home, office, and factory will be full of devices using gravitational energy instead of electricity.

Gravity is many orders of magnitude weaker than the other forces, so unless we develop the ability to move the Earth and park near a black hole that's not likely.

 

[PDXFonz]

Gravity is many orders of magnitude weaker than the other forces, so unless we develop the ability to move the Earth and park near a black hole that's not likely.

Is there still not the possibility of amplification. Couldn't it be possible Gravity is more easily influenced and changed than say electricity?

 

[speeds]

I feel like this thread is missing a post vaguely criticizing the scientists, regaling us with a decades old story about tangentially related work an industrial laboratory, and lobbing a few unwarranted insults towards certain other posters in this thread. What gives?

 

[riverman]

I feel like this thread is missing a post vaguely criticizing the scientists, regaling us with a decades old story about tangentially related work an industrial laboratory, and lobbing a few unwarranted insults towards certain other posters in this thread. What gives?

We're exhausted

 

[jlprk]

When scientists figure out how to transmit this new energy through wires, then miniaturize them into chips, there will be a lot of new toys under the Christmas tree, which will be lit up by similar wires leading to wall plugs connected to a grid of gravitational substations throughout the city.

Gravity is many orders of magnitude weaker than the other forces, so unless we develop the ability to move the Earth and park near a black hole that's not likely.

You assume it will be wireless, and that power can't be boosted. As I said, wires and transformers are the next steps.

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

 

[jlprk]

Forces (force carrying particles) arise from different quantum fields within space. They aren't necessarily properties of space itself.

Not necessarily so, but as that phrase implies, not necessarily not so either. Each force may be our perception of a particular dimension. We may be confusedly bunching together all dimensions and calling the whole thing space. When scientists learn how to dissect space, they may find a dimension for each force.

 

[Further]

Not necessarily so, but as that phrase implies, not necessarily not so either. Each force may be our perception of a particular dimension. We may be confusedly bunching together all dimensions and calling the whole thing space. When scientists learn how to dissect space, they may find a dimension for each force.

Is that your theory or is it an existing theory based on math and modeling? I'm just curious because I have never heard this discussed before.

 

[riverman]

Not necessarily so, but as that phrase implies, not necessarily not so either. Each force may be our perception of a particular dimension. We may be confusedly bunching together all dimensions and calling the whole thing space. When scientists learn how to dissect space, they may find a dimension for each force.

I always wondered if the key is in dissecting space or unlocking a sense in the brain that allows the perception..ability to visually recognize multiple dimensions ..now all we need are probes and volunteers! Just finished the article...frickin' amazing!

 

[Denny Crane]

Is that your theory or is it an existing theory based on math and modeling? I'm just curious because I have never heard this discussed before.

He's been there and seen it first hand.

 

[jlprk]

Not necessarily so, but as that phrase implies, not necessarily not so either. Each force may be our perception of a particular dimension. We may be confusedly bunching together all dimensions and calling the whole thing space. When scientists learn how to dissect space, they may find a dimension for each force.

Is that your theory or is it an existing theory based on math and modeling? I'm just curious because I have never heard this discussed before.

Note my use of the word "may." It's my opinion, based on science readings exceeding Denny's illiteracy by about 50 hours per week. By the way, the anticlimactic peer-reviewed paper finally came out days after the news.

http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102

 

[dead247]

One step closer to a functional warp drive!

 

[Further]

There is a pretty interesting interview of Lawrence Krauss on the topic of this discovery on the most recent podcast episode of Penn's Sunday School. Skip the first hour, they talk about a bunch of stuff before Lawrence arrives, but starting at about an hour and 4 minutes (The final 34 minutes) Krauss explains the complexities of the discovery, it's meaning and how important the discovery is. It's pretty interesting

Episode 207 - Lawrence Krauss Explains Gravity Waves
http://pennsundayschool.com/episodes/