Unprecedented Space Discovery - Astronomical Phenomenon

[Jonesy]

I put this in the "Last Days / Signs of the Times", because we all know what this means...

"ESO will hold a press conference on 16 October 2017 at 16:00 CEST, at its Headquarters in Garching, Germany, to present groundbreaking observations of an astronomical phenomenon that has never been witnessed before."

https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann17071/

[Hivetyrant36]

I’ll be interested to find out. Probably nothing though, as usual. If it is a planet, well, it would depend on its orbit but we all know what joseph Smith tells us that the sign of the coming of the Son of Man will be.

[inho]

Well, they got my interest. However, I think it won't be anything mindblowing.

[inho]

LIGO scientists are giving a press conference at exactly same time. There have been rumours circulating about a gravitational wave observation which was accompanied by an electromagnetic signal observed by regular telescopes. Two colliding neutron stars could cause that.

[inho]

ESO Telescopes Observe First Light from Gravitational Wave Source

LIGO and Virgo make first detection of gravitational waves produced by colliding neutron stars
Discovery marks first cosmic event observed in both gravitational waves and light.

[Alaris]

Here's another article - a little easier to read:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sp ... 9699db1f01

[Z2100]

ESO Telescopes Observe First Light from Gravitational Wave Source

LIGO and Virgo make first detection of gravitational waves produced by colliding neutron stars
Discovery marks first cosmic event observed in both gravitational waves and light.

Really?! Leo & Virgo. We just had September 23rd!

[LukeAir2008]

[Hivetyrant36]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFJjrD5pq_I[/youtube]
Not sure how to get the video to imbed

[Jonesy]

Not sure how to get the video to imbed

Just erase everything including and before the =.

I feel very underwhelmed about the discovery...Great video, though.

[Jonesy]

I feel very underwhelmed about the discovery...Great video, though.

They came out with a video debunking the announcement on the very same day that the announcement was made? Lol!

I'm beginning to see that modern science can be a joke. Or maybe they're just putting too much weight on previously believed theories that could actually be wrong.

[Hivetyrant36]

The guys talking are the project leads for the channel, and all it would take is some footage, slap it onto some narration, and bam, you have a video giving your opinion of the "discovery" of visible gravity waves. Their opinion had already been formed and they've made video's about science's claims of gravity waves before. I would guess that the video I shared would have taken maybe a maximum of 3 hours to make. Maximum. Meaning, I could probably do one at the same quality in an hour, if I was the narrator and had a recording of Wal's voiceover.

[inho]

They came out with a video debunking the announcement on the very same day that the announcement was made? Lol!

Did they? I missed the part where they address the recent observation. I thought it was all about the observation of gravitational waves in general, it talked about black holes, whereas the recent observation was about neutron stars. The video was quite silly. They basically completely dismiss the theory of general relativity and use Newton's gravity.

[Serragon]

I'm not qualified to even begin to understand whether what was detected was valid. I have no real reason to disbelieve, but I am always skeptical when told that something is true that is not intuitive and that I cannot experience or understand myself. So much of the universe seems to be made up of stuff we can't see or detect that it begins to stretch credulity. Can we really tell from these tiny signals that gravity has waves and Neutron stars collided (or that they even exist)? I often feel like an infant trying to make sense of calculus when pondering these things; except there seems to be a possibility that the calculus is actually gibberish in this case.

I am pleased that there are scientists who are trying to poke holes at it as that leads to truth and accuracy.

[Hivetyrant36]

I'm not qualified to even begin to understand whether what was detected was valid. I have no real reason to disbelieve, but I am always skeptical when told that something is true that is not intuitive and that I cannot experience or understand myself. So much of the universe seems to be made up of stuff we can't see or detect that it begins to stretch credulity. Can we really tell from these tiny signals that gravity has waves and Neutron stars collided (or that they even exist)? I often feel like an infant trying to make sense of calculus when pondering these things; except there seems to be a possibility that the calculus is actually gibberish in this case.

I am pleased that there are scientists who are trying to poke holes at it as that leads to truth and accuracy.

It's designed to be hard to understand because it's all lies. The more people who can understand it, the more public scrutiny the published works are under. Scientists write papers to keep their jobs and government funding, not to make discoveries.