Nobel Prize Awarded for Detection of Gravity Waves – IEEE Spectrum

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/astrophysics/nobel-prize-awarded-for-detection-of-gravity-waves

 The three men who won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics helped prove Einstein correct by detecting gravitational waves from a pair of colliding black holes.

 Rainer WeissBarry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne were awarded for conceiving and creating the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, or LIGO.

 Just last week, a sister detector in Italy called Virgo announced the discovery of another collision, the fourth reported so far. That was the first to be measured by three detectors.


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  1. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Physicists find we’re not living in a computer simulation
    https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/physicists-find-we-re-not-living-in-a-computer-simulation?utm_source=MIT+Technology+Review&utm_campaign=5e937b6947-The_Download&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_997ed6f472-5e937b6947-153844985

    The sci-fi trope might now be put to rest after scientists find the suggestion that reality is computer generated is in principle impossible, writes Andrew Masterson.

    The finding – an unexpectedly definite one – arose from the discovery of a novel link between gravitational anomalies and computational complexity.

    In a paper published in the journal Science Advances, Zohar Ringel and Dmitry Kovrizhi show that constructing a computer simulation of a particular quantum phenomenon that occurs in metals is impossible – not just practically, but in principle.

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