Far out cosmology: LIGO finds waves? (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, February 13, 2016, 13:37 (2987 days ago) @ David Turell

David's comment: Einstein's spacetime fully validated!-dhw: No mention of your theory that all of these events were part of God's plan to create humans! Once all the excitement has died down, I suspect we shall find that we have actually learned very little (so far). This breakthrough has served to confirm what scientists already believed.-DAVID: for such an imaginative person, you certainly missed the point. This is humans uncovering the mysteries of the universe with their vastly superior intellect and their never unending drive to explain everything.-I share your admiration for our never ending human quest for truth, but why have you made a general point about humans when my comment was specifically about this particular event? It has NOT uncovered the mysteries of the universe. It appears to have confirmed that two black holes collided a billion or so years ago. The rest is a series of “perhaps”. Practically every month there is some headline-grabbing breakthrough in the science world, and we are still “left darkling”. You omitted the main point of my post: “Three cheers for technology, but “perhaps” we should wait for some sensational new discoveries about the origin, history and composition of the universe before we go dancing in Stockholm.”