[joolze]

Post something not the telegraph.

Seriously, the only thing this article is says: Physicists and astronomers are agog. On Thursday, experimenters will report the first detection of a phenomenon that has been long predicted: bursts of gravitational waves generated by cosmic collisions of black holes.

That is NOT a report, that's someone guessing what the report will be. There's not a single quote from anyone remotely involved in the project. This is a piece of shit summary of a wikipedia entry on LIGO with a clickbait headline.

SAGE

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The second paragraph, immediately afterwards, says:

"Sadly it is not unknown for hyped-up scientific claims to be mistaken or exaggerated - claims of particles going faster than light, gravitational waves from the big bang, and so forth. I count myself a hard-to-convince sceptic. But what is being claimed will be the culmination of literally decades of effort by scientists and engineers with high credentials, and this time I expect to be fully convinced."

ie., Sir Martin Rees (the author), one of the most famous astronomers in the world, is putting his credibility behind this. That matters.

[graycat]

You are a very skeptical, no BS, tough nut to crack kind of guy. Good! I like that! HN, the Internet, the world needs much more of that. Such high standards make at least some of HN a crown jewel of the Internet place.

Still, back to common, ordinary, reality, Sir Rees does have a lot of credibility.