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Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R... by misnome on Thursday February 11, 2016 @12:00PM (#11081351)
In the press conference Kip Thorne mentioned that the estimates were for several events per year, before sensitivity upgrades.
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Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R... by davrosthedalek on Thursday February 11, 2016 @12:10PM (#11081403)
But he neglected to mention the error bars on this, which AFAIK are huge at least for BH-BH mergers. Every time we built a new instrument, we saw something new, whether in astrophysics, or nuclear physics, or particle physics. Maybe the BH-BH rate is much higher than expected.
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