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Originally Posted by gary
Hi Ray,
A great time to be alive indeed.
Ponder the fact that the black hole merger took place at a time
a billion years ago where we were still single cell organisms and
starting to evolve into multi-cell organisms.
The gravitational waves emanated across space at the speed of light and
by the time they reached Earth on Monday September 14th 2015 we
had evolved to the point we could detect them.
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Nicely put Gary, certainly gave me pause.
I love the following aspect of the discovery:
"The violent event temporarily radiated more energy — in the form of gravitational waves — than all the stars in the observable Universe emitted as light in the same amount of time."
http://www.nature.com/news/einstein-...t-last-1.19361