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WASHINGTON The signal of Big Bang ripples announced in March this year was too weak to be significant, two separate analyses say, suggesting the astronomers had jumped the gun. Astronomers this spring announced that they had evidence of primordial...

The recent detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO/VIRGO team is an incredibly impressive achievement of experimental physics. It is also a tremendous success of the theory of General Relativity. It confirms the existence of black holes; shows that...

reference: viXra:1207.0069v1 title: On Two New Techniques for Gravitational Waves authors: Dhananjay P. Mehendale category: Astrophysics type: submission date: 2012-07-18 07:36:21 abstract: We propose two new novel techniques for detecting gravitational...

Titan is the best place for humans to colonize in our solar system. It won’t be easy and won’t happen for a long time, but we’ve shown that if propulsion systems get faster it could be practical, at least compared to the other options, and, if practical...

Shaun Maguire, a Caltech PhD student, wrote one of the hyper-PC texts How to get more girls into STEM that simply drive me up the wall. It is marginally understandable when a female feminist – whose broad framework of thinking is in between a clever...