Posts tagged Einstein@Home

Problems with the LIGO gravitational wave discovery

It’s been over a month since the announcement by the LIGO team that they made the first ever direct observation of gravitational waves in history.  The following is a concise list of problems associated with this claim, much of which has been summarized from my original post a couple of weeks ago. ~~~~~ Non-repeatability and non-verifiability The Advanced LIGO experiment did not follow the scientific method, one of the fundamental tenants of which is that […]