WE INTERRUPT REGULAR SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING TO ANNOUNCE THAT GRAVITATIONAL WAVES HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED. I REPEAT, GRAVITATIONAL WAVES HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED

ohtze:

fuck yes. YES. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Links to gravitational wave goodies below (and why this is such a huge fucking deal). Will update when I find more. Watch the video. WATCH THE VIDEO.

https://soundcloud.com/emily-lakdawalla/ligochirp <WHAT GRAVITATIONAL WAVES SOUND LIKE!

Articles

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/gravitational-waves-einstein-s-ripples-spacetime-spotted-first-time

http://www.space.com/31894-gravitational-waves-ligo-search-complete-coverage.html

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gravitational-waves-discovered-from-colliding-black-holes1/

http://www.nature.com/news/einstein-s-gravitational-waves-found-at-last-1.19361

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/ligo-gravitational-wave-1.3440315

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/09/gravitational-waves-everything-you-need-to-know

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/11/gravitational-waves-discovery-hailed-as-breakthrough-of-the-century

http://gizmodo.com/holy-shit-scientists-have-confirmed-the-existence-of-g-1755465297 (not scholarly at ALL, but still including it)