Archive for 2017 / July / 09

Third time is not the charm for LIGO gravitational wave discovery

I wasn’t sure what more I could write to follow up on my article concerning the second gravitational wave discovery claim by the LIGO team that I posted exactly one year ago today.  Instead of hundreds or even dozens of subsequent detections that were predicted to be made since that time, there has been only one!  This third detection, GW170104, occurred over a year after the second one and is the weakest and least precise […]