{"id":84442,"date":"2018-11-04T01:25:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T08:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/exclusive-grave-doubts-over-ligos-discovery-of-gravitational-waves"},"modified":"2018-11-04T01:25:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T08:25:39","slug":"exclusive-grave-doubts-over-ligos-discovery-of-gravitational-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/exclusive-grave-doubts-over-ligos-discovery-of-gravitational-waves","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Grave doubts over LIGO\u2019s discovery of gravitational waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exclusive-grave-doubts-over-ligos-discovery-of-gravitational-waves.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The news we had finally found ripples in space-time reverberated around the world in 2015. Now it seems they might have been an illusion.<\/p>\n<p>LIGO\u2019s detectorsEnrico Sacchetti<\/p>\n<p>THERE was never much doubt that we would observe gravitational waves sooner or later. This rhythmic squeezing and stretching of space and time is a natural consequence of one of science\u2019s most well-established theories, Einstein\u2019s general relativity. So when we built a machine capable of observing the waves, it seemed that it would be only a matter of time before a detection.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@wormhole\/exclusive-grave-doubts-over-ligos-discovery-of-gravitational-waves-f7c88b36ed47\">https:\/\/medium.com\/@wormhole\/exclusive-grave-doubts-over-lig...c88b36ed47<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news we had finally found ripples in space-time reverberated around the world in 2015. Now it seems they might have been an illusion. LIGO\u2019s detectorsEnrico Sacchetti THERE was never much doubt that we would observe gravitational waves sooner or later. This rhythmic squeezing and stretching of space and time is a natural consequence of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84442","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}