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An 'unknown' burst of gravitational waves just lit up Earth's detectors:
Earth's gravitational wave observatories -- which hunt for ripples in the fabric of space-time -- just picked up something weird. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo detectors recorded an unknown or unanticipated "burst" of gravitational waves on Jan. 14.
The gravitational waves we've detected so far usually relate to extreme cosmic events, like two black holes colliding or neutron stars finally merging after being caught in a death spiral. Burst gravitational waves have not been detected before and scientists hypothesize they may be linked to phenomena such as supernova or gamma ray bursts, producing a tiny "pop" when detected by the observatories.
This unanticipated burst has been dubbed, for now, S200114f, and was detected by the software that helped confirm the first detection of gravitational waves.
[...] Astronomers have already swung their telescopes to the interesting portion of the sky, listening in across different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum for a whisper of what might have occurred.
Previously:
LIGO Observes Lower Mass Black Hole Collision
First Joint Detection of Gravitational Waves by LIGO and Virgo
LIGO May Have Detected Merging Neutron Stars for the First Time
GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2
Europe's "Virgo" Gravitational Wave Detector Suffers From "Microcracks"
LIGO Black Hole Echoes Hint at General-Relativity Breakdown
LIGO Data Probes Where General Relativity Might Break Down
Did the LIGO Gravitational Wave Detector Find Dark Matter?
Second Detection of Gravitational Waves Announced by LIGO
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 16 2020, @11:10PM (1 child)
Tell that to these jokers: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31573637 [nih.gov]
They found that while getting a *low* (only 16 g/day) dose of IV vitamin C for 4 days only 4% of patients with severe sepsis died. In the control group, 20% died. After they stopped the vitamin C the death rates were equal for the next 24 days. And oh yea, they found that everyone was deficient in vitamin C at the start of the study, even according to the governments very weak definition of deficient (just enough to prevent obvious scurvy).
They conclude:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31573637 [nih.gov]
So... sorry, it is a nice sounding saying but most people passing as "scientists" these days are more interested in CYA than learning new things. If you had the chance to decrease your risk of dying 5x from 20% to 4%, shouldn't that be interesting enough to note? And this is hardly the first study to report the same thing for nearly every illness (vitamin C is depleted and the patients need a lot to even get back to normal).
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday January 17 2020, @09:09AM
And in the vaccine study of regione Puglia district which, with active surveillance found a 300x increase in reported problems and a 4% grave adverse reactions 3% of which ascribable to the vaccine injection, they conclude that vaccines are safe.
https://www.libreidee.org/2018/11/la-puglia-4-reazioni-avverse-gravi-ogni-100-vaccini-iniettati/ [libreidee.org]
OTOH I think there are not many political/economic issues in the detection of gravitational waves. So unless they are looking for publicity they ought to be trustable.
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