Gravitational Waves detected

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funny.
Next big physicist Richard Feynman, the hero ... one man who made physics hip, and accessible to masses,
also helped build N-bomb.
So... you know....
Like every thing else ... its not so simple.
Nukes are not made by hawaldaars in army... its the brightest scientist who make them.

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OK I must say, this is hilarious

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Great woman. Here is a video of her lecture given at celebration of general relativity at Princeton University.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5axL8Eu2ss

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She said in an interview she got her love for science from her Chemistry teacher in Karachi.
Her contribution is also mentioned on these international sites.

“A Cataclysmic, Space-Warping Event” --LIGO Team On Their Epic Detection of Gravitational Waves](http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2016/02/witnessing-a-cataclysmic-space-warping-event-ligo-researchers-on-their-epic-detection-of-gravitation.html)

NERGIS MAVALVALA: It’s been a real joyride for decades and this is the pinnacle. It’s been amazing to be involved in the science and technology of this effort regardless, and this discovery just makes it all really worthwhile. I don’t think any of us ever feared we were being dragged to our doom. [Laughter] We were just on this great joyride where we didn’t know where we might end up.
TKF: This discovery of gravitational waves has been a long time in the making and required a lot of patience. Were you all actually surprised, then, at how quickly the detection was made after Advanced LIGO began operating back in September?
MAVALVALA: Yes.
EVANS: Very pleasantly surprised.
WEISS: It’s amazing. The signal is bigger than we ever imagined it would be.
MAVALVALA: We had thought the first signal would be some little small thing poking up out of the noise and we’d have to work really hard to understand what it was. But in fact, the signal we got is a very clean and beautiful event. It tells us that the binary black holes were located about 1.5 billion light years away. They whirled around each other at nearly the speed of light before a collision that was so powerful, it converted approximately three times the mass of the Sun into gravitational wave energy—in just a few tenths of a second!

Scientists make first direct detection of gravitational waves | MIT News

ET and Dawn have mentioned her as well.

This is a lecture she gave on gravitational waves at Princeton University.

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or detection of gravitational wave is another way to prove that God doesn’t exist :smiley:

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There is consensus on that - so not sure there is a need for more ways to prove. What say you, good sir?

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They detected a black hole 2.1B times the size of our sun... This is just what humans have observed who knows what else is out there, Its mind boggling!!! The power of its creator must truly surpass all human understanding....

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and the creator's creator must be like twice as awesome...

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I thought the exponent rule applies.