what sciences is einstein@home doing?
23 Feb 2005 22:04:10 UTC
Topic 187909
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I understand that we are looking for spinning neutron stars (pulsars). I looked for some information about the sciences einstein is doing on this webpage, but i could not find any.
What is the point in looking for them?
What do we get if we find anything?
what sciences is einstein@home doing?
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> I understand that we are looking for spinning neutron stars (pulsars). I
> looked for some information about the sciences einstein is doing on this
> webpage, but i could not find any.
> What is the point in looking for them?
> What do we get if we find anything?
>
try this older thread:
http://einsteinathome.org/node/187857
Notice that the name of our results give an indication of where the data came from and what frequency our search was over.
for one of my WU named:
H1_0510.9__0511.4_0.1_T01_Test02_0
it was from Hanford (H1) and they started the look at 510.9 Hertz and my Wu was working around 511.4 Hz.
Those Pulsars rotate at a given speed and we are look at data and trying to see if there are any out there rotating 511.4 times a second (for this example)
That is the best I can figure out right now. But they should tell us more later (and perhaps correct my guess).
Dennis
> I understand that we are
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> I understand that we are looking for spinning neutron stars (pulsars). I
> looked for some information about the sciences einstein is doing on this
> webpage, but i could not find any.
> What is the point in looking for them?
> What do we get if we find anything?
>
more Info to this
http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/
http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/LIGO_web/about/
http://cgwp.gravity.psu.edu/
http://www.cc.rochester.edu/college/rtc/Borge/overview.html
and about Albert Einstein
http://www.westegg.com/einstein/#quotes
and for the German Users
http://www.einstein-online.info/index.html
Greetings from Germany NRW
Ulli
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> more Info to this
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> http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/
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> http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/LIGO_web/about/
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> http://cgwp.gravity.psu.edu/
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> http://www.cc.rochester.edu/college/rtc/Borge/overview.html
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> and about Albert Einstein
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> http://www.westegg.com/einstein/#quotes
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> and for the German Users
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> http://www.einstein-online.info/index.html
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Thanks for the help Sir Ulli :)
EDIT: http://www.physics2005.org/events/einsteinathome/index.html a site with some helpful info also.
> I understand that we are
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> I understand that we are looking for spinning neutron stars (pulsars). I
> looked for some information about the sciences einstein is doing on this
> webpage, but i could not find any.
> What is the point in looking for them?
To verify the existence of gravitational waves.
> What do we get if we find anything?
The satisfaction of being involved in a major scientific discovery and maybe your name in a footnote :)
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searching for gravitational waves since 2005
I dont no exactly, but at
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I dont no exactly, but at least i feel that I am contributing to the good of the future generations.
http://www.theflyingpatient.com
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We're looking for evidence of gravitational waves, and hence the events that cause them. These are disturbances in spacetime produced by really, really massive things falling together - fortunately for us some distance away. It's roughly like flicking a rug and causing a quiver at the other side, but a very stiff rug which needs quite a yank to produce even the smallest of movements. E@H tries to sift through the data emitted from the LIGO's, each of which is a pair of long laser resonant cavities at right angles, and 'listen' to the spacetime wiggles. Largely the challenge has been to reduce a myriad of other influences ( besides wiggling spacetime ) that causes these devices to jiggle.
Curiosity ultimately. More knowledge about the nature of this universe. Past, present and future. It probably won't have quite the technological spin-offs like, say, the Apollo missions did ( teflon, velcro..... ) though.
Warm inner glow! :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal