Quarter Million Mark
15 Jun 2007 17:30:57 UTC
Topic 192849
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I'd say woohoo, but since the results are never relayed to a member in any palatable form then all I can say is 'woot'.
PS: WOOHOO!!! >> woohoo! > woohoo >> woot.
This makes me wish there was a "page for dummies" for both one's own returned results as well as for the entire E@H project. :/ No?
Anyway, 250,000 credits and crunching...
-LD
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Quarter Million Mark
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Congratulations
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RE: This makes me wish
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You mean the Milestone thread? ;-)
RE: RE: This makes me
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I think he means a page, not a thread, where he can see his totals and all of E@H's totals. Auto-updated with each new visit, not due to new postings and not seeing just other individuals' totals.
RE: RE: RE: This makes
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Sorry I didn't make myself clear. HEre is what I mean in detail:
1) which of my results is meaningful: the most, the medium, the least,
2) what does the result mean?
3) what is quantum gravity?
Answers for normal people - not physicists with brains the size of a planet. :)
thx!
-LD
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RE: 1) which of my results
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All the validated ones are meaningful: results with possible signals in them more so than those without.
We're making progress in the search for gravity waves, one way or another.
An attempt at reconciliation of incompatible theories, namely quantum mechanics and general relativity.
Surely there are better answers, but hopefully those are helpful. :)
RE: RE: 1) which of my
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1) I knew that stuff, perhaps more details. E.g. are they detecting radio waves or ... what ARE they detecting?? I mean it can't be radio waves, no? That's light and E = hv (nu). But gravity has to do with mass, and the collapse of a star would emit those waves... so how do you detect a wave of gravity?
2) where is the wave in the data? If it was a light wave then Iknow it would be an amplitude of some kind. The peak would indicate a wave is present. So where is the peak in the data? Have there been no "peaks"??
3) Could they tell us something like: "Your result has of a gravity wave."?
-LD
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RE: RE: RE: 1) which of
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The length of the arms in the interferometer changes from passing gravity waves. There are different kinds of astronomical events that produce the waves, hence different types of signals. When you detect a signal (by measuring the same changes in all the respective interferometers) it will match a pattern that will identify whether the waves came from something like a supernova, or from a binary system, or from a specific type of star that's rotating...
The peak in the data would come from an excessive amount of photons hitting a photodiode in one of the ports of the interferometer. Probably no trouble with finding peaks in the data. The hard part is eliminating peaks from all other sources, and then finding the same pattern in data from the other interferometers. When that happens, you'll likely hear about it in the news.
Not sure, but I think that post-processing of all the validated results would make that difficult to do... Some kind of notification or benchmark would be nice :)
We're currently crunching data in a 'hierarchical' search, which means all the Work Units have a higher probability of success, I would guess.
RE: 3) Could they tell us
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This last question is what I am really after - a sense of my contribution to the research... I mean my computers contribution of course.
Thanks Chipper!
-LD
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