Okay you grav wave crunchers and wannabe winners, it's time to tie what we do to reality:
How may confirmed and candidate gravity wave events have been detected so far during LIGO and VIRGO observational runs 1, 2, and 3?
Bonus question: How many of these have my crunching hosts detected?
The Fine Print: The correct answer will not be the winning answer for this edition of TLPTPW, but it will undoubtedly impress participants, friends, and family alike.
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
Okay you grav wave crunchers and wannabe winners, it's time to tie what we do to reality:
How may confirmed and candidate gravity wave events have been detected so far during LIGO and VIRGO observational runs 1, 2, and 3?
Bonus question: How many of these have my crunching hosts detected?
The Fine Print: The correct answer will not be the winning answer for this edition of TLPTPW, but it will undoubtedly impress participants, friends, and family alike.
Well that settles it. His trigger is the next cruncher to detect a wave.
Thanks for the idea! The trigger will be a random event, specifically a gravitational wave event. Would that be the first use of a random trigger for this forum? I haven't worked out the details yet, but it will be an alert that pops up on one of the gravitational wave event apps that provide real time public notifications of candidate signals from the LIGO and VIRGO detectors.
The app I use is Gravitational Wave Events for the iPhone. I like it because there are some knowledgeable discussions in the Messages section. Also, the sky maps are interactive so you can zoom in for a bit more graphic detail and point your phone at the spherical coordinate(s) of the event. A similar app, Chirp, is on Google Play, as well as on the App Store. (Search for "gravitational wave", not just 'chirp'.)
If you need help to interpret GW and sky map info from these apps, check out issue #15 of LIGO magazine.
The answer to the question, if I counted right, is 54 GW events as of my prior posting. Thank you Mikey for the Wikipedia link. There was one screaming big event alert that came in today, but we'll see if that gets confirmed.
The bonus question answer: zero! Yes, like SETI, much of what we do his has very low expectation of actually launching us to fame and glory.
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
Well that settles it. His trigger is the next cruncher to detect a wave.
Thanks for the idea! The trigger will be a random event, specifically a gravitational wave event. Would that be the first use of a random trigger for this forum? I haven't worked out the details yet, but it will be an alert that pops up on one of the gravitational wave event apps that provide real time public notifications of candidate signals from the LIGO and VIRGO detectors.
The app I use is Gravitational Wave Events for the iPhone. I like it because there are some knowledgeable discussions in the Messages section. Also, the sky maps are interactive so you can zoom in for a bit more graphic detail and point your phone at the spherical coordinate(s) of the event. A similar app, Chirp, is on Google Play, as well as on the App Store. (Search for "gravitational wave", not just 'chirp'.)
If you need help to interpret GW and sky map info from these apps, check out issue #15 of LIGO magazine.
The answer to the question, if I counted right, is 54 GW events as of my prior posting. Thank you Mikey for the Wikipedia link. There was one screaming big event alert that came in today, but we'll see if that gets confirmed.
The bonus question answer: zero! Yes, like SETI, much of what we do his has very low expectation of actually launching us to fame and glory.
Hopefully the cruncher to detect that next wave is also a poster in here!!
I'm okay with not finding anything, after all there's alot of chaff to sort thru too but it would be nice if our crunching was producing something worthwhile even if it's to sort out the crap from the good stuff.
OK back to free speech here since I tricked all the mods here to chase a cuss word into the Large Hadron Collider and are now stuck in the CMS detector
OK back to free speech here since I tricked all the mods here to chase a cuss word into the Large Hadron Collider and are now stuck in the CMS detector
Living in Florida with a roof circa 2004 was deemed not a good idea and with the hail storm damage of a year ago it became less of a good idea. The roof had dimples almost all the way through the singles down to the felt but the insurance company said "no" to replacement so I took the financial cost on myself. Today the roofers showed up at 7 and left at 1815. A complete tear down, dry in and shingle all in ONE day. It was an 8 man crew. I was quite impressed. Hopefully it will be a quiet year
Living in Florida with a roof circa 2004 was deemed not a good idea and with the hail storm damage of a year ago it became less of a good idea. The roof had dimples almost all the way through the singles down to the felt but the insurance company said "no" to replacement so I took the financial cost on myself. Today the roofers showed up at 7 and left at 1815. A complete tear down, dry in and shingle all in ONE day. It was an 8 man crew. I was quite impressed. Hopefully it will be a quiet year
I did that a few years ago when I had to get the roof plywood replaced due to the original builder using too thin a plywood on it, they also did it in a day and like yours it took all day and was impressive. That was on my old house and helped keep the price higher than the neighbors who hadn't done it yet when I sold it. The guy who gave me a price said he was afraid he was going to go right thru in some places, it was VERY THIN!!!
I too hope it's a quiet year for you especially since the storms that hit you often then come up the Coast to at least graze me in North Carolina!!!
Okay you grav wave crunchers
Okay you grav wave crunchers and wannabe winners, it's time to tie what we do to reality:
How may confirmed and candidate gravity wave events have been detected so far during LIGO and VIRGO observational runs 1, 2, and 3?
Bonus question: How many of these have my crunching hosts detected?
The Fine Print: The correct answer will not be the winning answer for this edition of TLPTPW, but it will undoubtedly impress participants, friends, and family alike.
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
cecht wrote:Okay you grav
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gravitational_wave_observations[/url]
Well that settles it. His
Well that settles it. His trigger is the next cruncher to detect a wave.
Gary Charpentier wrote:Well
LOL!!
Gary Charpentier wrote:Well
Thanks for the idea! The trigger will be a random event, specifically a gravitational wave event. Would that be the first use of a random trigger for this forum? I haven't worked out the details yet, but it will be an alert that pops up on one of the gravitational wave event apps that provide real time public notifications of candidate signals from the LIGO and VIRGO detectors.
The app I use is Gravitational Wave Events for the iPhone. I like it because there are some knowledgeable discussions in the Messages section. Also, the sky maps are interactive so you can zoom in for a bit more graphic detail and point your phone at the spherical coordinate(s) of the event. A similar app, Chirp, is on Google Play, as well as on the App Store. (Search for "gravitational wave", not just 'chirp'.)
If you need help to interpret GW and sky map info from these apps, check out issue #15 of LIGO magazine.
The answer to the question, if I counted right, is 54 GW events as of my prior posting. Thank you Mikey for the Wikipedia link. There was one screaming big event alert that came in today, but we'll see if that gets confirmed.
The bonus question answer: zero! Yes, like SETI, much of what we do his has very low expectation of actually launching us to fame and glory.
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
cecht wrote:Gary Charpentier
Hopefully the cruncher to detect that next wave is also a poster in here!!
I'm okay with not finding anything, after all there's alot of chaff to sort thru too but it would be nice if our crunching was producing something worthwhile even if it's to sort out the crap from the good stuff.
OK back to free speech here
OK back to free speech here since I tricked all the mods here to chase a cuss word into the Large Hadron Collider and are now stuck in the CMS detector
You're welcome
MAGIC Quantum Mechanic
Thanks?
Living in Florida with a roof
Living in Florida with a roof circa 2004 was deemed not a good idea and with the hail storm damage of a year ago it became less of a good idea. The roof had dimples almost all the way through the singles down to the felt but the insurance company said "no" to replacement so I took the financial cost on myself. Today the roofers showed up at 7 and left at 1815. A complete tear down, dry in and shingle all in ONE day. It was an 8 man crew. I was quite impressed. Hopefully it will be a quiet year
robl wrote:Living in Florida
I did that a few years ago when I had to get the roof plywood replaced due to the original builder using too thin a plywood on it, they also did it in a day and like yours it took all day and was impressive. That was on my old house and helped keep the price higher than the neighbors who hadn't done it yet when I sold it. The guy who gave me a price said he was afraid he was going to go right thru in some places, it was VERY THIN!!!
I too hope it's a quiet year for you especially since the storms that hit you often then come up the Coast to at least graze me in North Carolina!!!