LIGO: We Found Gravitational Waves! #EinsteinWasRight

As expected, LIGO announced the discovery of gravitational waves!  Einstein was correct.  About 100 years ago he posited that when two large objects with a huge amount of mass accelerating would distort the fabric of space and time creating gravitational waves. No one has been able to prove this until September 14, 2015 the feast day of the Holy Cross. A signal was received by LIGO's antennas which sounded like a 'chirp.' This 'chirp' was the gravitational wave as it passed through the Earth distorting space time and matter at the protonic level. The distortion was so quick (traveling nearly at the speed of light) that we did not even notice it in our bodies.  These waves originated from a far away galaxy with a binary black hole system or two black holes with 30 times the mass of our sun orbiting each other in a death spiral.  When both united and became one, this released energy like that of a trillion suns.  Physicists believed this occurred 1.3 billion years ago, but we are now receiving the waves. You can read more about it in the published peer review:

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102

This discovery can tell us more about how gravity works in relation to other forces and the mass of objects.  With this knowledge, we may be able to figure out how to use waves to distort space and time to create Rosen-Brigdes or 'wormholes.' These 'wormholes' can allow us quicker travel time between galaxies or may open the door to other dimensions, realms or universes that may exist.  The news lit up Twitter with hashtags #LIGO, #GravitationalWaves and #EisteinWasRight trending.
Here are more reactionary tweets to this exciting news:

It is confirmed! ! #LIGO found gravitational waves!! ##science

— Sacerdotنs (@Sacerdotus) February 11, 2016

So on Sept 14 2015 (Holy Cross) Ligo detected gravitational waves at the protonic level. A binary black home system converged.

— Sacerdotنs (@Sacerdotus) February 11, 2016

Only 20 minutes until the #LIGO announcement! Here's a livestream: https://t.co/yyzX0TD3ev

— Matt Ford (@fordm) February 11, 2016

The waves took over 1.3 billion years to reach Earth. They distorted space time and matter as they passed through us.

— Sacerdotنs (@Sacerdotus) February 11, 2016

We will stream this w/ Q&A by Daniel Holz, one of the physicists involved in the discovery! @NSF @UChicago #LIGO https://t.co/nCgkzFBmwp

— UChiPhysicalSciences (@UChicagoPSD) February 11, 2016

We need to thank @LKrauss1 for telling us months in advance about today's #LIGO announcement.

— Sacerdotنs (@Sacerdotus) February 11, 2016

Awesome! https://t.co/xTZ6FW5FiR

— Sacerdotنs (@Sacerdotus) February 11, 2016

The signals seen by LIGO Hanford and Livingston! pic.twitter.com/MHDNxG15mO

— Lawrence M. Krauss (@LKrauss1) February 11, 2016

The chirp heard round the world. Gravitational wave frequency in the audible range.

— Lawrence M. Krauss (@LKrauss1) February 11, 2016

Some shots from press conference. pic.twitter.com/8ATz1Gi0ko

— Lawrence M. Krauss (@LKrauss1) February 11, 2016

What did we learn from the first direct detection of #GravitationalWaves? See https://t.co/fVwG3pacSG for an overview! #EinsteinWasRight

— LIGO (@LIGO) February 11, 2016

Take 4 min to watch how LIGO detected gravitational waves and proved Einstein right https://t.co/teCB7RG2Dt pic.twitter.com/luefhYX1KH

— Jonathan Corum (@13pt) February 11, 2016

PHOTOS: Einstein was right, again: gravitational waves detected. https://t.co/EFX6Fwbs7S pic.twitter.com/7MUAyCilXh

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) February 11, 2016

You can read all about the #LIGO findings on gravitational waves here, via @PhysicsWorld: https://t.co/XuHTpI8YBt pic.twitter.com/TnAcr2OHfd

— Institute of Physics (@PhysicsNews) February 11, 2016

The breakthrough could offer greater understanding of the Big Bang among other things. https://t.co/aTweArcgga pic.twitter.com/1WnbnPCr6S

— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 11, 2016

The moment #LIGO announced Einstein's #gravitationalwaves found at last. Full story: https://t.co/GRxhqpzUdd pic.twitter.com/ZFE0kUQDOZ

— Nature News&Comment (@NatureNews) February 11, 2016

Kip Thorne: "We have never had any tests of general relativity in the strong field regime, until now."#GravitationalWaves #EinsteinWasRight

— LIGO (@LIGO) February 11, 2016

Gonzalez: We always have coincidences, the question is whether they are significant or not. #LIGO #gravitationalwaves #Einsteinwasright

— Alexandra Witze (@alexwitze) February 11, 2016

This is the sound of two black holes colliding, as recorded by #LIGO https://t.co/KdTgkIKvep https://t.co/eLfkxAOTk5

— NYT Science (@NYTScience) February 11, 2016

Historic Gravitational Waves Discovery Explained By Experts | Video https://t.co/ZAMJiweHpF

— Live Science (@LiveScience) February 11, 2016

Ask a #LIGO physicist anything you want about gravitational waves right here: https://t.co/7EMnAGRto2 pic.twitter.com/GO41X0Qkko

— io9 (@io9) February 11, 2016

We have detected gravitational waves! #LIGO #applause

— Sean Carroll (@seanmcarroll) February 11, 2016

Two black holes. Each thirty times the mass of the sun. Locked in a death spiral, a billion light-years away from us. #LIGO

— Sean Carroll (@seanmcarroll) February 11, 2016

Gravitational waves at last. My blog post about #LIGO: our fantastically knowable universe.https://t.co/LtTp75lzuv

— Sean Carroll (@seanmcarroll) February 11, 2016

#LIGO does have *some* implications for quantum gravity. Namely: the graviton is pretty darn close to massless. (Every little bit helps.)

— Sean Carroll (@seanmcarroll) February 11, 2016

Source:

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20160211

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/

https://www.caltech.edu/gwave

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html?_r=0     

Gravitational Waves Found By LIGO

In 2014, a big commotion was going on in the scientific community.  The American 'BICEP2' team claimed to have discovered ripples or gravitational waves.  European scientists were skeptical and tested the data.  They found that what the American's detected was lens interference and that of galaxies (see: http://www.sacerdotus.com/2014/03/inflation-lemaitre-was-correct.html).  Gravitational waves were predicted by Albert Einstein just 100 years ago.  The existence of these waves would provide further evidence that the universe did start at a 'big bang.'  Anyhow, after the disappointment from the 'BICEP2' team, Lawrence Krauss posted some tweets that caused a buzz. He claimed that the science institution 'LIGO' found evidence of gravitational ways.  He was immediately attacked by others, including his peers for making such a suggestion. However, it seems that he was correct.  'LIGO' did in fact announce that they will be revealing some information on gravitational ways tomorrow, February 11, 2016 at 10:30 AM EST.

I will keep you posted as I learn more information, stay tuned.  Here are the tweets Krauss was sending out:

2016 could bring two discoveries that would color fundamental physics in 21st century: New particles at LHC, and Gravitational waves at LIGO

— Lawrence M. Krauss (@LKrauss1) January 4, 2016

My earlier rumor about LIGO has been confirmed by independent sources. Stay tuned! Gravitational waves may have been discovered!! Exciting.

— Lawrence M. Krauss (@LKrauss1) January 11, 2016

@ProfMike_M last time I mentioned possibility what it did was produce articles about gravitational waves, which was what I hoped for.

— Lawrence M. Krauss (@LKrauss1) January 13, 2016

One thing I hoped for when spurring interest in LIGO a week ago.. a nice educational exposition just appeared @sciam https://t.co/G76EQHSK4B

— Lawrence M. Krauss (@LKrauss1) January 20, 2016

HAPPY that my tweet and resulting excitement likely not misplaced. LIGO WASH DC PRESS CONF., FEB 11! GRAV WAVES & NEW ERA IN ASTRONOMY?!!

— Lawrence M. Krauss (@LKrauss1) February 4, 2016

OK.. Science Mag., which earlier confirmed the Feb 11th date, now describes more details of possible GW discovery! https://t.co/I6PlErWEr3

— Lawrence M. Krauss (@LKrauss1) February 7, 2016

official announcement of Feb 11th LIGO Press conference on gravitational waves: https://t.co/jsxGa1lNKt

— Lawrence M. Krauss (@LKrauss1) February 8, 2016

Source:

http://www.ligo.org/news/media-advisory.php

http://news.discovery.com/space/more-gravitational-wave-rumors-colliding-black-holes-160208.htm

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2076754-latest-rumour-of-gravitational-waves-is-probably-true-this-time/

http://www.ligo.org/news/media-advisory.php

http://www.scientificamerican.com/

http://www.lsu.edu/science/news_events/cos-news-events/news-events-2015/LIGOWaveCatchers.php

Inflation - Lemaitre was Correct!

Astrophysicists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center have appeared to discover evidence of Cosmic Inflation.

Cosmic Inflation basically means that the universe is expanding and began to expand about 14 billion years ago after the "Big Bang." The evidence comes in "B-modes" which are polarizations in the Cosmic Microwave Background.

These were discovered using the BICEP (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) telescope which is located in Antarctica. The telescope seems to show gravitational waves which indicate expansion of space, time and matter itself.

This all seems complicated, but try to see it as a pond.  If you throw a stone at the pond you will see ripples extending outward from the point of impact.

This is pretty much what these astrophysicists spotted. The "ripples" are the gravitational waves expanding space, time and matter just like the ripples in water show the water "expanding" outward, if you will.

We can thank Monsignor George Lemaitre for formulating the "Big Bang Theory."  Many in the atheist community distort the truth by claiming that religion and science are incompatible or that the Catholic Church is opposed to science.  Msgr. Lemaitre and countless others in the Catholic Church have shown otherwise.  Had it not been for this priest, these astrophysicists would not have been looking for and finding these gravitational waves.  Msgr. Lemaitre was President of the Pontifical Academy of Science and contributed much to science and faith.

Source:

http://news.yahoo.com/major-discovery-smoking-gun-universes-incredible-big-bang-145912987.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/17/cosmic-inflation-theory-early-universe-expansion_n_4979486.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D454769






UPDATE:  December 2014  


According to a new study which was submitted for peer review suggests that the study conducted last year by BICEP2 was wrong.  Apparently, the twists of B-modes which are imprints of gravitational waves of energy were not what the American BICEP2 team thought they were.  The B-Mode signal may have been interference from large galaxies.  There is also the lensing effect which must be considered.  However, the more solid reason for the doubts come from dust that is in the Milky Way.  This dust can cause a polarisation pattern like that of B-Modes which may have confused the American physicists into thinking that they were gravitational waves showing expansion at a rapid rate.  The quest now continues...





Source:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.5738.pdf

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=76635

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31058529

http://wtexas.com/content/15011865-bicep-detection-was-wrong-study

https://www.ias.edu/ias-letter/flauger-bicep