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I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down.
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CharlieZ · 70-79, M
Read about the confirmation of gravitational waves.
This is shaking a 90 years debate on the unification of physics.
irishmolly72 · 56-60, F
@CharlieZ But are the hypotheses in it testable?
CharlieZ · 70-79, M
Had been an hypotheses till 1995.
Confirmed then.
Now the unification based in quantum views is haves a hole of the size of the relativistic universe.
irishmolly72 · 56-60, F
@CharlieZ Well I'll be.
@CharlieZ ? Try 2015 for the first detection of gravity waves.

[i]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_observation_of_gravitational_waves[/i]

This was the basis for the Nobel Prize in Physics being awarded to Kip Thorne [i]et al.[/i]

[quote]Now the unification based in quantum views is haves a hole of the size of the relativistic universe.
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I have no idea what you are trying to convey here...?
@irishmolly72
[quote]@CharlieZ But are the hypotheses in it testable?
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Perhaps you were thinking about General Relativity (GR), as a whole, which has been notoriously difficult to test in that many effects are quite small (in the neighborhood of the Earth, the Sun, and our Solar System); in fact, Einstein doubted that a signal as small as gravity waves could be detected.

[This is why Gravity Probe B was so important; see
[i]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Probe_B[/i]. This actually tested two different GR effects, which was a stroke of genius.]