Gravitational waves finally captured

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Press Release: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017
3 October 2017

   The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel
   Prize in Physics 2017 with one half to
   
   Rainer Weiss
   LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration
   
   and the other half jointly to
   
   Barry C. Barish
   LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration
   
   and
   
   Kip S. Thorne
   LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration
   
   "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of
   gravitational waves"
   
Gravitational waves finally captured
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2017/press.html
   
   On 14 September 2015, the universe's gravitational waves were observed
   for the very first time. The waves, which were predicted by Albert
   Einstein a hundred years ago, came from a collision between two black
   holes. It took 1.3 billion years for the waves to arrive at the LIGO
   detector in the USA.
   
   The signal was extremely weak when it reached Earth, but is already
   promising a revolution in astrophysics. Gravitational waves are an
   entirely new way of observing the most violent events in space and
   testing the limits of our knowledge.
   
   LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, is a
   collaborative project with over one thousand researchers from more than
   twenty countries. Together, they have realised a vision that is almost
   fifty years old. The 2017 Nobel Laureates have, with their enthusiasm
   and determination, each been invaluable to the success of LIGO.
   Pioneers Rainer Weiss and Kip S. Thorne, together with Barry C. Barish,
   the scientist and leader who brought the project to completion, ensured
   that four decades of effort led to gravitational waves finally being
   observed.
   
   In the mid-1970s, Rainer Weiss had already analysed possible sources of
   background noise that would disturb measurements, and had also designed
   a detector, a laser-based interferometer, which would overcome this
   noise. Early on, both Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss were firmly convinced
   that gravitational waves could be detected and bring about a revolution
   in our knowledge of the universe.
   
   Gravitational waves spread at the speed of light, filling the universe,
   as Albert Einstein described in his general theory of relativity. They
   are always created when a mass accelerates, like when an ice-skater
   pirouettes or a pair of black holes rotate around each other. Einstein
   was convinced it would never be possible to measure them. The LIGO
   project's achievement was using a pair of gigantic laser
   interferometers to measure a change thousands of times smaller than an
   atomic nucleus, as the gravitational wave passed the Earth.
   
   So far all sorts of electromagnetic radiation and particles, such as
   cosmic rays or neutrinos, have been used to explore the universe.
   However, gravitational waves are direct testimony to disruptions in
   spacetime itself. This is something completely new and different,
   opening up unseen worlds. A wealth of discoveries awaits those who
   succeed in capturing the waves and interpreting their message.
   
   Read more about this year's prize
   Popular Science Background
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My interpretation is that Gravitational waves have indeed been detected and captured all right,
but the claim that the source of these waves have been two black holes who merged into
one black hole, is a whole different exercise.

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GW170814 : A three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence

This publication was accepted on Accepted 25 September 2017 by Physical Review Letters:

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Accepted Paper
GW170814: A three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence
Phys. Rev. Lett.
B. P. Abbott et al.
Accepted 25 September 2017
https://journals.aps.org/prl/accepted/69074Y64W381ce5618c199a889597e6e32e431e9e
http://archive.fo/Zp9NG
  "ABSTRACT

   On August 14, 2017 at 10:30:43 UTC, the Advanced Virgo detector and the
   two Advanced LIGO detectors coherently observed a transient
   gravitational-wave signal produced by the coalescence of two stellar
   mass black holes, with a false-alarm-rate of < 1 in 27 000 years. The
   signal was observed with a three-detector network matched-filter
   signal-to-noise ratio of 18. The inferred masses of the initial black
   holes are 30:5+5:7 �3:0M and 25:3+2:8 �4:2M (at the 90% credible
   level). The luminosity distance of the source is 540+130 �210 Mpc,
   corresponding to a redshift of z =0:11+0:03 �0:04. A network of three
   detectors improves the sky localization of the source, reducing the
   area of the 90% credible region from 1160 deg2 using only the two LIGO
   detectors to 60 deg2 using all three detectors. For the first time, we
   can test the nature of gravitational wave polarizations from the
   antenna response of the LIGO-Virgo network, thus enabling a new class
   of phenomenological tests of gravity. "

So the experiment was conducted on  August 14, 2017 and within 5 weeks its Accepted
on 25 September 2017 as the ultimate experiment demonstrating not only Gravitational waves,
but in the same Omnibus publication establish the first experimental proof for detecting a "binary black hole"

The ink of this publication has not even dried up so to speak ...  as if the Nobel Committee
had been waiting for this one to arrive on their doorstep.

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The distance between LIGO Livingston and LIGO Hanford is
roughly 3078.59km (1,912.95 mi) according Google maps.

The distance between LIGO Livingston and the Advanced Virgo detector
in Cascina, Province of Pisa, Italy is
roughly 8233.56 km (5,116.10 mi) according Google maps

The distance between LIGO Hanford and the Advanced Virgo detector
in Cascina, Province of Pisa, Italy is
roughly 8604.75 km (5,346.74 mi) according Google maps

According the publication :

"The signal was first observed at
   the LIGO Livingston detector at 10:30:43 UTC, and at the
   LIGO Hanford and Virgo detectors with a delay of ∼8 ms
   and ∼14 ms, respectively"

Deducting from the publication :

  "The signal was observed at the LIGO Hanford at (10:30:43 UTC + 8 ms)
   and at the Advanced Virgo detector with a delay of (14-8) 6 ms."

perceived measured speed of the Gravitational wave front (orthogonal
or longitudal ) between capture at LIGO Livingston and LIGO Hanford
is about v = 384.823.750 meter/sec

perceived measured speed of the Gravitational wave front (orthogonal
or longitudal ) between capture at LIGO Livingston and Advanced Virgo detector
is about v = 588.111.428 meter/sec

perceived measured speed of the Gravitational wave front (orthogonal
or longitudal ) between capture at LIGO Hanford and Advanced Virgo detector
is about v = 1.434.125.000 meter/sec

For comparison, the speed of light between is still c = 299.792.458 m / s .

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  page 11 :
  "[ ... ]
   For completeness, it should be mentioned that the gravitational-wave
   detector TAMA300 with 300-m-long arms ran at the National Astronomical
   Observatory in Japan, collecting data from 1999 to 2004. This detector
   has now been decommissioned [34]. It is considered a prototype for the
   planned advanced Japanese interferometer KAGRA [45].
   [ ... ]
   [34] R. Takahashi (TAMA Collaboration), Status of TAMA300,
       Class. Quantum Grav. 21, S403 (2004)
   [45] K Somiya (KAGRA Collaboration), Detector configuration of KAGRA –
       the Japanese cryogenic gravitational-wave detector,
       Class. Quantum Grav. 29, 124007 (2012)
   [ ... ]"

Too bad the Japanese were decommissioned, as a fourth measurement point
in the Minkowski space would have allowed for a proper independent
measurement of the speed of the detected Gravitational wave front,
without inserting assumptions like the location of the binary black
hole (BBH) merger.

[Christopher Marlowe]

This is a variation on the Michelson Morley experiment, which showed that the earth is motionless. But that was not an acceptable answer and so Einstein came up with relativity.

All of this space stuff looks like hoaxery to me. I don't believe any of it.

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All of this space stuff looks like hoaxery to me. I don't believe any of it.

    "Wir werden zeigen, daß diese in analoger Weise berechnet
     werden können wie die retardierten Potentiale der Elektrodynamik.
     Daraus folgt dann zunächst, daß sich die Gravitationsfelder mit Licht-
    geschwindigkeit ausbreiten. Wir werden im Anschluß an diese all-
    gemeine Lösung die Gravitationswellen und deren Entstehungsweise
    untersuchen. [ ... ]"

When the physicists who proposed the Gravitation theory, are put to the test
and actually are doing real world experiments, putting their assumptions and
equations to the test, it becomes interesting for me, like watching some super football
or soccer game which only happens once in a century or lifetime