1/2 Today I learned something about gravitational wave detectors that made me sad. Apparently the signal/noise problem in these experiments is so bad that the only way to detect anything is to scan through the data using a "template": a theoretical prediction for ...
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2/2 ... what the signal is supposed to look like. This means that there is essentially no chance to observe anything that hasn't already been predicted by theory.
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Replying to @gravity_levity
you know what that means? LIGO, but in 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆
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Replying to @InertialObservr @gravity_levity
It's called LISA
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