"Mike" <M.GS...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Does anyone have any new information on anything new being done to the
> LIGO
> detector?
> After hearing the LIGO gravity wave detector was not sensitive enough to
> detect gravity waves what are the steps being done to fix it? Are they
> planning to rip the guts out of it?
> That project sucked quite a bit of money out of the NSF piggy bank and I
> hope more funds are not going to be solicited unlessss they?re absolutely
> sure LIGO is going to work.
LIGO will work (and they are already working
on LIGO 2 which improves the sensitivity) but
whether it will detect gravitational waves is
another matter. The point is that a null result
at a sensitivity better than predicted for
detection would also be significant.
George
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