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Title    The Long Search for Gravity Waves
Date    Tuesday February 25 2014, @11:02AM
Author    mattie_p
Topic   
from the einstein-could-be-wrong-you-know dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/02/25/0615218

AnonTechie writes:

"The search for gravity waves has been a century long epic. They are a prediction of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity but for years physicists argued about their theoretical existence. By literally squeezing light on a quantum level, scientists are refining detection instruments to an extent never seen before.

If you want to place bets on the date of first detection of some gravity wave then some physicists would bet on 2016, probably the majority would bet 2017. A few pessimists would say that we will discover unexpected problems that might take a few years to solve."

Links

  1. "search for gravity waves" - http://phys.org/news/2014-02-sight-gravity.html
  2. "squeezing light" - http://theconversation.com/gravity-waves-scientists-wave-back-squeezing-light-beyond-quantum-limit-3342

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