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The Skeptics Guide #876 - Apr 23 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Gravitational Waves - A New Window Into the Universe

Recent research shows a new way to lever firmly spaced telescope data to get finer details about gravitational waves. Gravitation waves are ripples in space time, caused by accelerating masses in space. These ripples actually compress and stretch the bric of space on a scale orders of magnitude below the diameter of a proton. Now, these, these ripples, are totally new window into the universe,. allowing us to learn about what the really big boys in the universe, black holes, neutron stars, are doing without needing any type of light at all. Light is completely unneeded. This is fascinating, steve, not as good as the anti universe topic, but this is up there. I

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