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Steinn explains what the LIGO null results mean
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"The Hugo Awards for 2009 are going to be presented at the World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne in September next year. The Best Graphic Story category is only a year old, and I think SF fans might benefit from a broad brush introduction to some of the many comics out there that they might consider nominating. I'd like this to be the first of many such articles, from many people."
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LIGO has measured nothing to greater precision than all previous measurements of nothing.
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"The two iron laws of parking:
1. There is never enough.
2. Thou shalt not add parking, anywhere, ever.Corrolary: Calling attention to the contradiction between 1 and 2 is bad form."
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February 11th was a good day.
"We hope that interested people will repeat our calculations and will make up their own minds regarding the significance of the results. It is obvious that "belief" is never an alternative to "understanding" in physics." -J. Creswell et al.
"What's really exciting is what comes next. I think we're opening a window on the universe -- a window of gravitational wave astronomy." -Dave Reitze, executive director of LIGO
"There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change." -Edward Witten