• CFinley97@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I’m always aboard.

      But seriously, even small developments are so fascinating. This takes me back to 2015 and the excitement of the gravity wave news.

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    1 year ago

    Everything said in that NANOgrav link is mind-blowing.

    Slow, undulating waves in spacetime. Detected via observations of triangulated pulsars.

    Now THIS is what I love in humanity.
    It’s playful. It’s clever. In fact, it’s brilliant. It’s the sense of curiosity and discovery. It’s about finding the unexpected and even the unimaginable.

    EDIT: It’s like the man said…

    "We’re using a gravitational-wave detector the size of the galaxy that’s made out of exotic stars, which just blows my mind,” exclaims National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Dr. Scott Ransom.

    I’m picking up Nobel Prize vibes here.

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    I’m bracing for disappointment from IceCube, but hopefully NANOGrav will more than make up for it.