{"id":84243,"date":"2018-11-01T08:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T15:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/danish-physicists-claim-to-cast-doubt-on-detection-of-gravitational-waves"},"modified":"2018-11-01T15:06:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T22:06:06","slug":"danish-physicists-claim-to-cast-doubt-on-detection-of-gravitational-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/danish-physicists-claim-to-cast-doubt-on-detection-of-gravitational-waves","title":{"rendered":"Danish physicists claim to cast doubt on detection of gravitational waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/danish-physicists-claim-to-cast-doubt-on-detection-of-gravitational-waves2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first direct detection of gravitational waves was announced on February 11, 2016, spawned headlines around the world, snagged the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, and officially launched a new era of so-called \u201cmulti-messenger\u201d astronomy. But a team of physicists at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, is calling that detection into question\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cAndrew Jackson and his group have been saying for the past few years that LIGO\u2019s detections are not real,\u201d says LIGO Executive Director David Reitze of Caltech. \u201cTheir analysis has been looked at by many people who have all concluded there is absolutely no validity to their claims.\u201d Reitze characterized the <em>New Scientist<\/em> article as \u201cvery biased and sensational.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\">\n<p>\u201cNothing they\u2019ve done gives us any reason to doubt our results.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/10\/danish-physicists-claim-to-cast-doubt-on-detection-of-gravitational-waves\/\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/10\/danish-physicists-cl...nal-waves\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe first direct detection of gravitational waves was announced on February 11, 2016, spawned headlines around the world, snagged the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, and officially launched a new era of so-called \u201cmulti-messenger\u201d astronomy. But a team of physicists at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, is calling that detection into question\u2026\u201d \u201cAndrew [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84290,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84243\/revisions\/84290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}