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But you wouldn't be able to move your arm this fast. Even if it was a tiny distance for you, you would still be limited to the speed of light.

I think I have seen some comments from the scientists involved saying that the fact it was detected so soon after the upgrade might mean that these events are more common than previously expected. But we won't know until we get more results.

Sometimes, when we discover new laws or theories. For example, we found out that Newton's law of gravity was "wrong" (not always accurate) and now we have a better theory (General Relativity). One day we may find a case where that doesn't apply and need a new theory. All theories are provisional. This is how science advances.

That's a no, then. We have a very well supported theory. You have nothing. I'll stick with the science, thanks. So far you have given no reason for your view other than you think it should be that way. All the evidence is that the universe is expanding and cooling. You have shown nothing to contradict this.

We have a very well tested theory supported by masses of evidence. What evidence do you have that they would not measure what we expect?

There is 100 years of evidence confirming general relativity. And about 90 years of evidence supporting the big bang model (based on GR). You seem to be contradicting this on the basis that "you think that is how it is" with no evidence or theory to support you.

If that is what you think, then you definitely need to read up on the Shell Theorem as ajb suggests. It sounds like your intuition doesn't match reality here. Not sure why.

That will only create pseudo gravity around the equatorial region. You seems to have ignored Ophiolite's practical point about destroying everything when you compress them to this extent.

For a permanent magnet, I think you want the Curie-Weiss law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie%E2%80%93Weiss_law This only applies above the Curie point where the magnet loses its ferromagnetism.

Makes you wonder what the effect would be if it happened nearby. Presumably massive shaking like a global earthquake.

We have managed to observe the gravitational waves caused by two massive black holes merging (admittedly a long distance away) so I think we are a long way from observing the gravitational effects of individual atoms. There are easier ways to observer their behaviour.

Why would anyone who did ALL the work share their reward with you? Just because you came up with an idea? It isn't original and doesn't seem to have much basis in reality. Ideas are easy. Anyone can have hundreds of them. The hard part is throwing away the wrong ones.

Of course it does. It is also an important technological development that will lead to a knew form of astronomy. Nothing. Geocentrism (in your sense) is a religious belief and therefore science is irrelevant. It is a similar setup to the Michelson-Morley experiment. I suppose if gravity waves were much larger, then that could have detected them. As it is, it was not sensitive enough by several orders of magnitude. It demonstrates (1) the existence of gravitational waves and (2) black hole mergers, both of which behave exactly as predicted. The theory has had evidence confirming it since the very beginning. It is one of the most well-tested theories ever. For 100 years. To high levels of accuracy.

While it is true that all those things spin, it is not because of the black hole (apart from anything else, it is far too small to have that effect). It is because of the conservation of angular momentum of the original cloud of gas and dust. This may be true. But I'm not sure if there is any evidence yet. Anyone else know? We would need to observe matter falling into the black hole to know. This is not true the magnetic field is far to weak to have any such effect. It is also unnecessary as an explanation. Did anyone say they were 2 dimensional? They do exist. They are 4 dimensional waves.

It is the process of the event horizons combining into one, larger one. From my understanding the merger is inevitable before the event horizons actually touch. If you look at some of the simulations, there is a point where the event horizons start to stretch towards each other. At this point the merger is inevitable. There are several statges (which can be seen quite clearly in the graphs). There is the "inspiral" as the two black holes orbit each other faster and faster, and closer and closer. This happens because so much energy is radiated away as gravitational waves. After the actual merger there is the "ringdown" phase as the resulting event horizon settles back down to a sphere. All these have been simulated in detail for many different conditions, which is how they were able to identify so precisely what this even was and how far away it was. This is a popular science myth oversimplification.

Do you have any evidence to support this? There is all sorts of evidence that shows it to be wrong. For example: - Electromagnetic fields can be blocked (e.g. by metal), gravity can't. - Objects with no charge are affected by gravity. - Electromagnetic forces both atrract and repel, gravity doesn't. - Magnetism is a dipole and thus falls off as an inverse-cube law, gravity follwos an inverse square laqw - The same is true if you consider the electric charges within atoms and molecules as dipoles (which is only valid in certain circumstances) Those are the ones that occur to me immediately. I'm sure there are others.

As Endy says, all analogies are approximations and at some point no longer work. The two analogies sound like they are describing the same thing. But analogies are never really right or wrong. They may be more or less helpful in describing some part of the theory. But they are generally useless beyond that. Part of the problem seems to be that you are trying to extrapolate from an analogy to areas where it is no longer relevant.

They are the results of the same thing: the curvature of space-time. You may have seen the bowling ball in a rubber sheet analogy for gravity. This shows that the static curvature of space-time causes the force we think of as gravity. Now imagine the bowling ball moving (or bouncing up and down). In this case their will be ripples in the sheet that spread out (like ripples in a pond). That is an analogy for gravitational waves.

Which is contradicted by both theory and evidence. So I have suggest that this be moved to Speculations. Do you have anything other than assertions to support your concept?

There is no evidence that UFOs are anything other than unidentified. (That is what the U stands for. And that is all it stands for.) Your dreams are irrelevant.

It doesn't. That idea has been long discredited. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triune_brain

Reminds me of the "If I can imagine it, it is possible!" thread. http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/78802-if-i-can-imagine-it-it-is-possible/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedmann_equations It was first mentioned in this thread three days ago.[/size] [/size]

But no one claimed that was the case. But what evidence do you have for this ... "thing"? There is a large gap between possible and existing.

What? It is important how well two different analogies match? I think they are saying the same thing but they are both analogies so they are both wrong, in a sense.