Lethean
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Quote (stevestory @ June 19 2017,16:36) | Quote | At Forbes: Gravitational waves detection was all just noise, some researchers say
June 19, 2017 Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics |
wtf would that have to do with ID?
Oh yeah, ID is just science-bashing. |
Heh, yeah. In the the case of gravitational waves there's a whole host of cranks, religious and otherwise, that desperately want the detection signals to be noise or proven to be a conspiracy. The desires range from Einstein being wrong, black holes don't exist, big bang is a lie ... therefore there's a conspiracy to fabricate evidence for a multiverse/big bang/an old universe. (and as always the mainstream scientists are in it to keep a job or even better for the grants, obscene salaries, a Nobel, the Ferraris and Lambos)
The last item, old universe, is probably most appealing to "News". I don't claim to understand nor recall the explanation of the situation, but apparently YEC Hartnett in his physics twisting apologetics had either implied or asserted that gravitational waves would never be detected. I recall this post where Sal polished Hartnett's nuts over there including the wonderful flourish of quoting Conservapedia.
That signal (GW170104) was verified three weeks ago making it the third detection. I can't read the Forbes article for the paywall so I don't know what the criticism is.
(edit- removed the part where I mistakenly thought that UD article was from January and claimed this was moot.)
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