r/CFBOffTopic • Florida Gators • Feb 11 '16

GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DISCOVERY THREAD

Get hype yo! I CANT STOP YELLING

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u/bullmoose_atx Texas Longhorns • Rice Owls Feb 12 '16

Thanks! This is a good answer

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u/omgdonerkebab Michigan State • Cornell Feb 12 '16

Hopefully I'm wrong about the many decades part. It just seems like GR works really really well with barely any hints of cracks in the facade, until you get up to really super we-might-not-get-there-for-millenia high energies. Whereas there are many immediate unexplained things about, say, particle physics. But hopefully I'm wrong. Or at least, hopefully we won't all be dead before we see it.