Comments on LIGO Gets An Upgrade
Gravitational waves have eluded scientists thus far; new, improved LIGO should be sensitive enough to detect them. (Read
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"Here's a nice video of what LIGO does and describes Newton's and Einstein's ideas about gravity. Perhaps one day LIGO will validate Einstein's gravitational wave theory.
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(Bill Christensen 4/12/2008 9:03:35 PM)
"In Larry Niven's short story "The hole man", a gravity detector inadvertently detects an alien communication device on Mars.
The wikipedia item isn't very accurate IMHO, but here it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hole_Man
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(Yossi Preminger 4/14/2008 10:55:54 PM)
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