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Tangle Member  Posts: 6618 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 3.5 |
http://www.newser.com/...ts-make-key-big-bang-discovery.html It's another Higgs Boson moment - science predicts that a thing must exist for a theory to be correct, then the thing is found and everyone slaps themselves on the back. Now others go away and check that the original discoverers got it right and creationists have to make up a whole new pile of anti-science to make it fit their model(s).
Gravitational waves trigger ripples in space, seen in this illustration. Edited by Tangle, : No reason given. Edited by Tangle, : No reason given. Edited by Admin, : Minor grammar fix. Edited by Tangle, : No reason given. Edited by Tangle, : Picture added Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
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Admin Director  Posts: 12578 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 4.5 |
Can you edit to remove the personal reference?
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Tangle Member Posts: 6618 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 3.5 |
Done, but not sure why it matters........ Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
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Admin Director Posts: 12578 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 4.5 |
I'm not sure what you changed, but the reference to another member is still there.
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Tangle Member Posts: 6618 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 3.5 |
Done again, now that I understand what you were (quite reasonably) objecting to. Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
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Admin Director Posts: 12578 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 4.5 |
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ProtoTypical Member  Posts: 1773 From: Ontario Canada Joined:
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I am not really a big news junkie so I am sure that there is lots of stuff that I miss but there is something wrong when the greatest discovery in the history of science comes and goes with barely a whimper in the world's press. I had to go looking for the story in my google news aggregator. Do we really live in a world where the shape of Kim Kardashian's ass is more interesting than the shape of the universe? I read that merging black holes can also cause gravity waves. How do you distinguish the source? Do these waves have a direction?
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Diomedes Member  Posts: 799 From: Central Florida, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.4 |
That is pretty cool. Reminds me of the cosmic background radiation discovery that was made which also confirmed the Big Bang theory.
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ramoss Member  Posts: 3099 Joined: Member Rating: 6.3 |
Apparently, the gravity waves cause polarity in the back ground radiation. This, I think, it is the first time that the effects of gravity waves were observed. We have not yet directly observed gravity waves in the lab.
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Tangle Member Posts: 6618 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 3.5 |
It's very big news here, it's regarded as one of the most important discoveries ever made. Good article here: Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
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Dr Adequate Member  Posts: 16083 Joined: Member Rating: 10.0
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I think the real story is not "Big Bang Found" but "Predictions of Inflationary Hypothesis Confirmed". We already knew there was a Big Bang, but up until now the Inflationary Hypothesis was just an ad hoc explanation which was appealing because it ad-hoc-explained so many things at once. The corollary, which is significant for debates about origins, is that the (cosmological) fine-tuning argument now looks like even more of a crock.
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Dr Adequate Member Posts: 16083 Joined: Member Rating: 10.0 |
This is rather sweet: one of the guys who made the measurement got a cameraman and went round to Andrei Linde's house to surprise him with the news.
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ringo Member  Posts: 16147 From: frozen wasteland Joined: Member Rating: 3.0
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Yes, we do. From an evolutionary viewpoint, human reproduction - in all of its various facets - is more important than the shape of the room it's done in.
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1.61803 Member  Posts: 2812 From: Lone Star State USA Joined: Member Rating: 4.9
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"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs
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shadow71 Member (Idle past 982 days)  Posts: 706 From: Joliet, il, USA Joined:
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Not sure why you conclude "creationists" etc. I believe in creation and this finding supports the fact that the universe had a beginning, and thus there was some sort of creation.
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