[SFDXA] Gravity Waves and Einstein

[Hank Phillips]

I did enjoy the video, but I take some issues with what was claimed:

First, the US is no longer a leader in physics since the EU developed the
LHC and the US passed on building the superconducting super collider.

Unless we have discovered an additional brown dwarf star, the closest star
to earth is still Proxima Centauri at about 4.5 light-years, and not 3.25,
but the dude doing the talking  was a manager, not a physicist or
astronomer.  That mistake is understandable.

I also believe that the density in Washington is greater than that measured
(if it could be) in a black hole.

Vy 73,
Hank



-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Smitt [mailto:k9eseric at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 1:50 PM
To: Hank Phillips AA4HP
Subject: Gravity Waves and Einstein

You should enjoy this video.
Just in case there is someone on my list who might enjoy watching the real
press conference about yesterday's announcement of the scientific finding of
gravity waves in the universe, below is the URL for the YouTube playback.
Yes I know some of you don't have the ability to watch YouTube videos. But
you can go to almost any library and have one of their staff start the video
on a computer there. ( In a library, some headphones may be required.) The
press conference replay is available at

han https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEPIwEJmZyE

I have watched it and the quality is very good. The computer graphics that
explain how the instrumentation works and about what gravity waves are like
are all very good. Being a ham radio operator, if you understand wave
interference, just think of gravity waves as if they are like
electromagnetic waves and the two black holes are radiating waves as they
oscillate in their orbits around each other.