{"id":154,"date":"2016-02-11T20:37:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T20:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weegreenblobbie.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2016-02-12T02:08:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T02:08:32","slug":"gravity-freakin-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/weegreenblobbie.com\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Gravity Freakin&#8217; Waves!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How lucky we are to live in this time, the first moment in human history, when we\u00a0detected gravity waves! \u00a0It was only\u00a04 years ago in 2012\u00a0when the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Higgs_boson\" target=\"_blank\">Higg Boson<\/a> was discovered at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Large_Hadron_Collider\" target=\"_blank\">LHC<\/a>, 2\u00a0years ago we <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philae_(spacecraft)\">landed on a comet<\/a>, 1 year ago we flew past <a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/\">Pluto<\/a>. Today, we detected\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ligo.caltech.edu\/\">gravity waves<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WorldSciFest\">@WorldSciFest<\/a>&#8216;s own <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bgreene\">@bgreene<\/a> breaks down <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gravitationalwaves?src=hash\">#gravitationalwaves<\/a> and how significant today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LIGO?src=hash\">#LIGO<\/a> announcement is.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9rl8RtogAY\">https:\/\/t.co\/9rl8RtogAY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Albert Einstein (@AlbertEinstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlbertEinstein\/status\/697873915821961216\">February 11, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This will open up a whole new era of astronomy, potentially detecting gravity waves across our universe, unobstructed by gas and dust. We could potentially even get hints about the big bang that are older than the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cosmic_microwave_background\" target=\"_blank\">cosmic microwave background<\/a> (CMB), the oldest light in the universe. \u00a0Gravity waves could also provide new clues and limits for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_gravity\" target=\"_blank\">quantum theory of gravity<\/a>, perhaps leading us to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theory_of_everything\" target=\"_blank\">theory of everything<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Way to go <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LIGO\" target=\"_blank\">LIGO<\/a> and everyone who worked on this achievement!<\/p>\n<p>Science wins!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How lucky we are to live in this time, the first moment in human history, when we\u00a0detected gravity waves! \u00a0It was only\u00a04 years ago in 2012\u00a0when the Higg Boson was discovered at the LHC, 2\u00a0years ago we landed on a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/weegreenblobbie.com\/?p=154\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weegreenblobbie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weegreenblobbie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weegreenblobbie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weegreenblobbie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weegreenblobbie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/weegreenblobbie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"http:\/\/weegreenblobbie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weegreenblobbie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weegreenblobbie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weegreenblobbie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}