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| − | |"Despite wasting millions of taxpayer dollars searching for gravity waves predicted by the theory, none have ever been found."<ref>http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Counterexamples_to_Relativity&oldid=852797</ref> This was actually true at the time, but the implication was that gravitational waves would ''never'' be found. | + | |"Despite wasting millions of taxpayer dollars searching for gravity waves predicted by the theory, none have ever been found."<ref>http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Counterexamples_to_Relativity&oldid=852797</ref> |
| − | |The (perhaps overzealous) researchers at the "BICEP2" project claimed to have discovered evidence of gravitational waves from the "[[big bang]]".<ref>https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.3985v1</ref> This was shot down in 2015: "Gravitational waves discovery now officially dead."<ref>http://www.nature.com/news/gravitational-waves-discovery-now-officially-dead-1.16830</ref> But in 2015 and 2016, gravitational waves from colliding [[black hole]]s were irrefutably detected by the [[LIGO]] instruments. See [[Gravitational waves]]. | + | |[[Liberal]]s cling to their belief in [[gravitational waves]] similar to how they used to believe in life in outer space. |
| − | |Confirmed.<ref>http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102</ref><ref>http://www.ligo.org/news/pressreleases.php</ref><ref>http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102</ref><ref>https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/image/ligo20160211a</ref><ref>https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/video/ligo20160211v2</ref><ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/gravitational-waves-ripples-space-time-detected-first-time-n516566</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEPIwEJmZyE</ref><ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/it-wasn-t-fluke-scientists-see-black-holes-collide-again-n593156</ref><ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scientists-detect-second-gravitational-wave-einstein-predicted/</ref><ref>https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20160615</ref> | + | |No direct observation of gravitational waves has ever occurred. |
| − | <ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html</ref><ref>https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/video/ligo20160615v2</ref><ref>https://phys.org/news/2017-06-gravitational-insight-black-holes.html</ref><ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36472434#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</ref>
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