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.
What does Michio Kaku have to do with anything? Several of the actual scientists involved were tweeting about how earth shattering this will be.
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
the real researchers in my usage there is interchangeable with "the ogs"