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Jun 16, 2017 @ 04:30 PM
Was It All Just Noise? Independent Analysis Casts Doubt On LIGO's Detections
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Sabine Hossenfelder
Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized in quantum gravity and high energy physics. She also freelance writes about science.
Starts With A Bang, Contributor
After an effort of more than 100 years and a collaboration involving over 1,000 scientists, we all celebrated. It was February 11, 2016, and LIGO had just announced their first direct detection of gravitational waves. Analysis of the data attributed the signal to a black hole merger that happened several billion light years away. But what if there wasn't a signal at all, but rather patterns and correlations in the noise that fooled us into believing we were seeing something that wasn't real?
Jun 16, 2017 @ 04:30 PM
Was It All Just Noise? Independent Analysis Casts Doubt On LIGO's Detections
Stars With a Bang
The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.
Post written by
Sabine Hossenfelder
Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized in quantum gravity and high energy physics. She also freelance writes about science.
Starts With A Bang, Contributor
After an effort of more than 100 years and a collaboration involving over 1,000 scientists, we all celebrated. It was February 11, 2016, and LIGO had just announced their first direct detection of gravitational waves. Analysis of the data attributed the signal to a black hole merger that happened several billion light years away. But what if there wasn't a signal at all, but rather patterns and correlations in the noise that fooled us into believing we were seeing something that wasn't real?
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