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A comment on LIGO's vibration isolation system. Parent comment

Re:LIGO's vibration isolation system by lololomg on Thursday February 11, 2016 @09:06PM (#11084841)
That averages out over the timespan involved in gravitational wave detection. The waves detected by LIGO are on the order of 100 Hz while molecular vibrations are many orders of magnitude higher.
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Re:LIGO's vibration isolation system by JabavuAdams on Friday February 12, 2016 @05:35AM (#11086352)
Ah! This is a key point! Thanks.
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