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Thursday Feb 11th will likely go down in scientific history as the formal announcement of the widely-leaked and hinted-at first detection of gravitational waves.
The LIGO gravitational wave team is having a press conference on Thursday at 10:30am EST to announce the widely expected to result in Nobel Prizes first detection of gravitational waves.
The LIGO team's press release notes:
(Washington, DC) -- Journalists are invited to join the National Science Foundation as it brings together the scientists from Caltech, MIT and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) this Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at the National Press Club for a status report on the effort to detect gravitational waves - or ripples in the fabric of spacetime - using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO).
Do any Soylentils have the "secret" URL for the webcast? Please don't do anything stupid on this historic occasion, but it would be cool to watch history being made. Its kind of the physics equivalent of a moon rocket launch. It's very widely leaked that history will be made Thursday morning... wouldn't you like to see it?
Backreaction has everything you need to know about gravitational waves for preparation for the webcast.
It's an exciting time to be alive! On the other hand, if the endless leaks and insinuations are bogus, its also an exciting time to be pissed off, too.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Thursday February 11 2016, @01:53PM
According to the LIGO Announcement [ligo.org]:
I'm guessing they're limiting access via a registration link (it is at the National Press Club, which does provide webcast services [press.org]), hence the media contacts.
Hopefully, they're putting it on a delay and will show the news conference at the previously posted NASA APOD [nasa.gov] page. We can hope, at least.
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