Date: 5/11/2017 05:09:29
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1143290
Subject: We've Finally Narrowed Down The Speed of Gravity.

We’ve Finally Narrowed Down The Speed of Gravity And The Numbers Are Insane

In the wake of recent news that astronomers finally detected the space-warping boom of colliding neutron stars, measuring the merging of black holes might seem kind of old hat.

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Date: 5/11/2017 21:40:29
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1143685
Subject: re: We've Finally Narrowed Down The Speed of Gravity.

What’s insane is the accuracy.

> Cornish’s team of researchers combined the timings of the first three detections to narrow down the speed of the waves to between 55 and 142 percent of c.

Not too unexpected.

> A small army of physicists used the burst of gamma rays captured from last month’s neutron star collision to come up with their own estimate. Their method was a little more precise. Ok, a whole lot more precise. A match between the speed of light and speed of gavity within -3 × 10^-15 and 7 × 10^-16 of c.

Insane precision.

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