Topical friday and so we ask the Mighty One a Topical Question:
Oh, mighty iPod: will LIGO, now that it has reached phase I design sensitivity and is in double coincidence science run mode, detect the ringdown from the formation of intermediate mass black holes in the local universe?
Whoosh goes the randomizer.
Whoosh.
- The Covering: Sofa Urtubörn Á Útskerjum - trad.
- The Crossing: Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir - Claudio Arrau
- The Crown: A New England - Billy Bragg
- The Root: My Youngest Son Came Home Today - Billy Bragg
- The Past: Good Man, Good Woman - Bonnie Raitt
- The Future: The Nearly Man - Lightning Seeds
- The Questioner: Nicht war Tamino - Mozart
- The House: Baby Faroukh - Billy Bragg
- The Inside: Vivaldi - instr.
- The Outcome: More Love - Dixie Chicks
#11 London Calling - Clash; #12 Tveir Kettir - trad.
Hm, the covering is a lullaby.
The Future suggest that LIGO I will just fail, so LIGO 1.5 better do it I guess.
#12 is a "catfight song". I guess GEO will chip in and then they'll have at it.
So, almost.
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February 11th was a good day.
"We hope that interested people will repeat our calculations and will make up their own minds regarding the significance of the results. It is obvious that "belief" is never an alternative to "understanding" in physics." -J. Creswell et al.
"What's really exciting is what comes next. I think we're opening a window on the universe -- a window of gravitational wave astronomy." -Dave Reitze, executive director of LIGO
"There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change." -Edward Witten