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IF TRUE, THE DISCOVERY WOULD SUPPORT ONE OF EINSTEIN'S MAJOR PREDICTIONS.
By Sarah Fecht Posted Yesterday at 11:10pm

In September, the Caltech theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss tweeted:

@LKrauss1 amazing if true, but as scientists shouldn't we avoid spreading rumors, especially in a public space, and wait to know the facts?
1:31 PM - 26 Sep 2015

The folks on the LIGO experiment neither confirmed nor denied the rumor, and in Krauss's rumor-mongering raised hackles in the astrophysics community.

But now he's back at it again:

My earlier rumor about LIGO has been confirmed by independent sources. Stay tuned! Gravitational waves may have been discovered!! Exciting.
4:46 PM - 11 Jan 2016

There's plenty of reason to remain skeptical--we won't know for sure whether the rumor is true until we hear from the researchers on the experiment. If it does turn out to be true, it would be a very exciting finding.

 

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