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Re:Gravitational waves detected by LIGO by OscarCunningham on Thursday February 11, 2016 @07:41AM (#11079752)
How exactly is "speed of light" defined when the spacetime is moving in the precisely the region in which we are trying to measure the speed of light?
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Re:Gravitational waves detected by LIGO by solipsism on Thursday February 11, 2016 @11:21AM (#11081069)
Same way an ant walks a constant speed even if the balloon he's walking on is being blown up.
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Re:Gravitational waves detected by LIGO by simonh on Thursday February 11, 2016 @07:51AM (#11079794)
It's deforming (stretching) not translation (moving).
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