Comments on: Another LIGO black hole merger detected https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/another-ligo-black-hole-merger-detected/ Sat, 18 Nov 2017 01:49:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/another-ligo-black-hole-merger-detected/#comment-1024375 Sat, 18 Nov 2017 01:49:33 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=48823#comment-1024375 Sir Roger Penrose –
‘Einstein’s Amazing Theory of Gravity: Black Holes and Novel Ideas in Cosmology’
London Mathematical Society 2015
https://youtu.be/xAcvNnSrkcM
56:22

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/another-ligo-black-hole-merger-detected/#comment-1024357 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 23:50:39 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=48823#comment-1024357 LocalFluff–
Kip Thorn- has he always done that verbal tick thing? I only noticed it recently myself, not a huge consumer of Kip Thorn video.

(1st one is at the 12 second mark)
Kip Thorne – Why Black Holes Are Astonishing
https://youtu.be/oj1AfkPQa6M?t=10

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/another-ligo-black-hole-merger-detected/#comment-1024356 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 23:39:34 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=48823#comment-1024356 “Another Brick In the Wall” part 2
Pink Floyd
https://youtu.be/inSbcgMei6k?t=205
8:30

]]> By: LocalFluff https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/another-ligo-black-hole-merger-detected/#comment-1024076 Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:10:13 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=48823#comment-1024076 After the first one was announced, when the Nobel prize gold medal suddenly rung in their heads against all the odds, they predicted to find between 2 and 400 events per year. And they have delivered right in the middle of that narrow interval! Great astronomical precision!

Kip Thorne is the greatest physicist of our time. He is of course the face for many many others, but he is a well deserved personification of the whole of this successful life time project. He has this slight speech impediment that sounds pretty much like the chirp of the black hole mergers he detected. Maybe it is psychosomatic, having hunted that chirp all of his life.

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