Scientists at Washington’s National Science Foundation and Moscow State University have confirmed the discovery of Albert Einstein’s gravitational waves. The breakthrough, possibly the biggest in physics in a century, could be the key to new understanding of the universe.

Recent rumors of the success in detecting gravitational waves, or as some scientists put it "very weak spacetime wiggles which propagate at the speed of light" were officially confirmed Thursday.

"Ladies and gentlemen! We have detected gravitational waves, we did it!," LIGO laboratory executive director David Reitze announced in Washington.

"These gravitational waves were produced by two colliding black holes, [that] came together, merged and formed a single black hole about 1.3 billion years ago," Reitze said.

These ripples in the fabric of spacetime are one of the most important variables in Einstein's theory of relativity and it took astronomers decades to detect them, although they were pretty sure that gravitational waves existed.

The discovery has been made with the use of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) - a system of two detectors constructed to spot tiny vibrations from passing gravitational waves. Funded by the National Science Foundation, LIGO's identical detectors are located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington.

The observatories, which are "the most precise measuring device ever built," recorded a signal on September 14, 2015, "nearly simultaneously," and the signal "had a very specific characteristic," the laboratories' director said.

"As time went forward, the frequency went up," he explained, adding that it took scientists months of careful checking and analysis to confirm that what had been discovered was exactly gravitational waves.

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Amazing!

Just watched it on CNN

@ lalasticlala, dominique, Mynd44, Seun, this is an exciting news from the world of science that is worth sharing

Lalasticlala, Seun, mynd44, this is a scientific milestone that even Mark Zuckerberg shared on his Facebook wall. . . Pity its not on FP yet. . . Since it wasn't Tonto dikeh or Ice prince or Olamide.




@Op :- You beat me to it.




Very soon, even a 13 year old would reject creationism. . . After 100 years that Einstein already hypothesized it, we just discovered them. . . Hmmm



#ScienceIsGod #ShameOnAfrica #EinsteinNailsItAgain #ItWillNeverMakeFP. #DeathToCreationism

So what its importance?

Einstein was way ahead of his time tho.

Remember my lessons in EINSTEIN'S Relativity of TIME,SPACE co ordinates in a universal reference frame...back then at OAU ile ife


If you don't understand the importance of this discovery , think of it this way

There are different waves like

SoUND WAVES
LIGHT WAVES,under ELECTROMAGNECTIC WAVES

WATER WAVES
TIDAL WAVES
VIBRATIONAL WAVES ETC
Now

GRAVITATIONAL WAVES


Just like electromagnectic waves propagation makes it possible for us to send and receive radio signals,radar signals,television signals and even make and receive calls.

Gravitational waves propagation ill make it possible for objects to suspend in the vacumn or air without hitting the earth
It has the potential to transmit and receive matter.
Just like e can transmit and receive sound and light signals..

The potentials are inumerable tho


Physics is wonderful


Nice one.



Big up einstein
The greatest scientist ever



#PHYSICSmakesMENwise





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Buhari will not understand anything here...

Instead na 2 go warn North Korea...

(nepa bill)

Rogersmith:
So what its importance?

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WHAT IS IT PLS

In our quest for civilization we've only succeded in destroying the order of universal arrangement with our fallen nature and poor knowledge but the all seeing eye is great and will remain greater till the end of days.

Good discovery.

Where are the physicist nah.. They should explain this thing to us jawe instead of burning mb searching series of blogs.

Dekatron:
Lalasticlala, Seun, mynd44, this is a scientific milestone that even Mark Zuckerberg shared on his Facebook wall. . . Pity its not on FP yet. . . Since it wasn't Tonto dikeh or Ice prince or Olamide.




@Op :- You beat me to it.




Very soon, even a 13 year old would reject creationism. . . After 100 years that Einstein already hypothesized it, we just discovered them. . . Hmmm



#ScienceIsGod #ShameOnAfrica #EinsteinNailsItAgain #ItWillNeverMakeFP. #DeathToCreationism

Did u just say Science is God?

tasceige:
Where are the physicist nah.. They should explain this thing to us jawe instead of burning mb searching series of blogs.

So they were able to detect gravitational waves. So like radio waves, once you can detect it you can manipulate the wave this is how we brodcast signals like radio tv celphone and bluetooth.
So if you can manipulate gavity, think of all the possibilities like levitation, flying with little energy to takeoff, space travel, deep sea exploration etc.
So welcome to the new world. Don't freak out yet it would take a while b4 we get there.

Elparaiso:
Einstein was way ahead of his time tho.

He clearly had divine help

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Hmmmm

Only 30 views so far. This thread would would break the record for the shortest comment count ever on a frontpage topic.

We still have a lot to go by...we're still digging up Einstein archives, we've not even started with Nikola Tesla's yet

I don't understand this story

Hmmmmmm... pls someone explain to me in a layman's English what this means

please what does all these mean. someone should please explain to me

ozoigbondu:
I don't understand this story

Sorry bro, not for art students

nairaland poll, if u understand click like,

Dnt understand like me share