NEW Gravitational Wave Discovery! – Veritasium
NEW Gravitational Wave Discovery! – Veritasium
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NEW Gravitational Wave Discovery! – Veritasium
Crazy to think that there’s so much energy being released that we can detect it 3 billion light-years away. And yet, if I understood correctly, these huge events happen weekly or even daily. The universe is a big place, man…
Wasn’t this in the news like…6 months ago? NEW seems a bit misleading.
That professor is wicked chill.
Can anyone explain what they mean when they are talking about binary in this video?
[Beginning of the video got me hyped for cleganebowl! (warning loud)](https://youtu.be/psS2IMFkxKo?t=39s)
Oh wow they actually used my colleagues video at 3:45. Really awesome!! I guess if anyone has any questions I can probably answer them.
I wish I had as much passion at anything as Rana does about cleaning glass
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I wouldn’t be suprised if physicists are sitting on quite a few signals. Astronomy likes to go for five standard deviations for whatever reason when measuring confidence in a signal/event. To the rest of science fields this is borderline neurotic levels of surity, but it does mean we usually don’t get fake discoveries (also where planet 9 with its measly 3.9 standard deviations of confidence by the guy who discovered it gets its controversy from).
To put this in perspective, 2 standard deviations is 95 confidence that the results are not random chance/error.
You can still be wrong with that, it just gets progressively less and less likely its due to picking up a false positive. You could still interpret or associate data wrong though.
Hey “science” guys, wheres the f’n audio? I want to hear what the alien mothership warp drive sounds like.
LIKE A BOSS!
I really want to see that guy’s octopus.
TIL Leonard is an Indian man IRL
runs to caltech
runs to caltech
that first shot was way too stable to actually be hand held
he was running to hear about the gravitational wave discovery like yall do to get that first comment