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VLM [soylentnews.org] writes:

Thursday Feb 11th will likely go down in scientific history as the formal announcement of the widely leaked and hinted at first gravitational wave detection.

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 press release is currently at:

http://www.ligo.org/news/media-advisory.php [ligo.org]

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... woudn't you like to see it?

Backreaction has everything you need to know about gravitational waves as prep for the webcast.

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2016/02/everything-you-need-to-know-about.html [blogspot.com]

Its 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.

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