â??We proved Einstein right!â?? 100 years on, gravitational waves confirmed in breakthrough research
 

Scientists at Washingtonâ??s National Science Foundation and Moscow State University have confirmed the discovery of Albert Einsteinâ??s gravitational waves. The breakthrough, possibly the biggest in physics in a century, could be the key to new understanding of the universe.

Recent rumors of the success in detecting gravitational waves, or as some scientists put it "very weak spacetime wiggles which propagate at the speed of light" were officially confirmed Thursday.

"Ladies and gentlemen! We have detected gravitational waves, we did it!," LIGO laboratory executive director David Reitze announced in Washington.

"These gravitational waves were produced by two colliding black holes, [that] came together, merged and formed a single black hole about 1.3 billion years ago," Reitze said.

These ripples in the fabric of spacetime are one of the most important variables in Einstein's theory of relativity and it took astronomers decades to detect them, although they were pretty sure that gravitational waves existed.

Continued ?We proved Einstein right!? 100 years on, gravitational waves confirmed in breakthrough research ? RT News

it's about time. maybe now science can unify the field theory.

Mysteriously 1990's UFO magazines knew about this, and said that's how UFO's were flying, by sending out counter gravitational waves

and i thought this was a science thread! ya got me good, ZING!

Alien science, not primitive Human science

you already ZING!ed me, no need to ZING! me again.

lol. You should have seen it coming. I was gonna reply that aliens surf those waves to travel when the op started the thread

the topic sucked me in like a black hole! :1orglaugh

Almost had me too then I saw who the op was.....










http://i.imgur.com/xd0wWrD.jpg

You have clearly researched the working of UFO before

spicolli was an alien

I'll wait for 12Clicks to debunk this while eating ice cream before I give it any credence.

A certain GFY users Mom makes gravity waves when she walks. ack.

No way dude

http://49.media.tumblr.com/9b271ee0f...pytqo2_500.gif

:1orglaugh

be excellent to each other!

Einstein's gravitational waves exist - so does this mean we can now travel through time?

detecting a gravitational wave is not the same as detecting that time was altered by the wave. in fact, they didn't do that.
The article's leap to imply it might lead to time travel is giddy scientist over reaction to being noticed for 5 minutes