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Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R... by glial on Thursday February 11, 2016 @09:06PM (#11084842)
I think your calculation assumes that the waves are traveling parallel to the line connecting Livingston/Hanford. In the diagram below, 's' is the source of the waves.

    H-----L-------s
If instead the waves are traveling perpendicularly to the line between those two cities, they should be detected at the same time.

       s
      /|\
     / | \
    L-----H
Since the measured time difference is between 0ms and 10ms, the reality is probably somewhere in between these two extremes.
Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R... by hoodoof on Thursday February 11, 2016 @09:06PM (#11084845)
Weird, that's exactly what I was thinking.