{"id":15962,"date":"2016-02-11T14:21:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T20:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15962"},"modified":"2016-02-11T14:21:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T20:21:04","slug":"gravitational-waves-detected-confirming-einsteins-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15962","title":{"rendered":"Gravitational Waves Detected, Confirming Einstein\u2019s Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>That faint rising tone, physicists say, is the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space-time that Einstein predicted a century ago (Listen to it <a href=\"http:\/\/podcasts.nytimes.com\/podcasts\/2016\/02\/11\/science\/space\/ligo-chirp\/LIGOChirp.mp3\">here<\/a>.). And it is a ringing (pun intended) confirmation of the nature of black holes, the bottomless gravitational pits from which not even light can escape, which were the most foreboding (and unwelcome) part of his theory..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/12\/science\/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html\">Gravitational Waves Detected, Confirming Einstein\u2019s Theory &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEverything else in astronomy is like the eye,\u201d he said, referring to the panoply of telescopes that have given stargazers access to more and more of the electromagnetic spectrum and the ability to peer deeper and deeper into space and time. \u201cFinally, astronomy grew ears. We never had ears before.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That faint rising tone, physicists say, is the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space-time that Einstein predicted a century ago (Listen to it here.). And it is a ringing (pun intended) confirmation of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15962\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[855,645,862],"class_list":["post-15962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-astronomy","tag-history","tag-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15963,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions\/15963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}