This is the announcement that was being hyped up in that aliens or time-travel thread a few days ago.

The announcement is that the scientists who were studying gravitational waves found gravitational waves. This was perhaps a bit overhyped.

To be fair, it's a very big experiment and it's nice that they got it all to work. They also found more gravitational waves than expected.

    • Owl [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      I think these results are very cool, but the level of hype built up around it was still irresponsible.

        • Owl [he/him]
          hexagon
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          1 year ago

          What does Michio Kaku have to do with anything? Several of the actual scientists involved were tweeting about how earth shattering this will be.

          • Gutsfromberserk [none/use name]
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            1 year ago

            you don't think mr god particle saying quantum mechanics research will lead to teleporters before 2100 contributed to people making this about aliens, etc

        • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          There is no person I have consistently despised more than Kaku the entire way through my progression from insufferable STEMlord to barely sufferable leftie. Futurists get the wall.

      • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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        1 year ago

        irresponsible

        Tfw scientists announce they've made a major discovery but it's just some nerd shit about gravity and there's still zero sexy green-skinned alien babes fascinated by the strange human custom of blowjobs rage-cryshatter