Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right
"There's that word again. "Heavy." Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?"
very interesting read, thanks for posting it up
WOW! love this kind of stuff 
GREAT SCOTT!
I heard about LIGO last year sometime. Glad they didn't have to wait too long.
This makes me happy!
I don't think you understand the gravity of the situation...
Seriously though, this is cool stuff.
In reply to mad_machine:
Yes I do
So if they are waves, you can shift and cancel out the amplitude right.
When and where do I place my order for an anti-gravity machine?
And in case someone is going to try and ruin this by telling me that it would take a lot of energy, keep in mind that the Chinese simultaneously claim a jump in fussion power generation. Coincidence?
Are you implying the Chinese warped gravity?
They can't build a car right!
(sorry for the biting sarcasm, the mass stupidity/arrogance/ambivalence in the EPA thread has me in a mood.)
NOHOME wrote: So if they are waves, you can shift and cancel out the amplitude right. When and where do I place my order for an anti-gravity machine?
Anti-gravity? I think I want double or triple gravity. That way I will stay in excellent shape just sitting on the couch trying to breathe. Solves our chronic weight issues real fast.
Perhaps the detected gravitational waves were generated by the energy flux of the fusion reaction. Energy and mass can be considered the same with the right conversion, and gravity is a function of mass.
Just making stuff up now...
Flight Service wrote: Are you implying the Chinese warped gravity? They can't build a car right!
Actually, if you were the guy on the bike, you would think very highly of the pedestrian collision technology designed into that car.
Shoot, we all kinda knew about gravity waves - if they didn't exist, how would the Silver Surfer get around?
Im not a physicist, but if my High School physics is correct, you cannot use opposing waves to cancel gravity, you can use it to cancel the effect of the waves - gravity remains constant in the absence of the waves, so the opposing waves will only cancel the effect of waves on the constant.
That said, at either end of the wavelength, gravity will be increased/decreased by the amplitude of the wave. With the right amount of energy, one could amplify the peak and trough of waves, thereby creating moments of weightlessness if you could amplify it enough. The downside is that if one end of the wave is 0 gravity, the other half of the wave(if my silly, almost totally-uneducated-in-the-topic theory is correct) would create total gravity, i.e. a black hole - the effect of the gravity would be so complete, that nothing could escape.
Or, I could be completely and utterly wrong in the entirety of that nearly-incoherent post. YMMV
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