Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R...
by glial on Thursday February 11, 2016 @09:06PM
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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.
If instead the waves are traveling perpendicularly to the line between those two cities, they should be detected at the same time.
Since the measured time difference is between 0ms and 10ms, the reality is probably somewhere in between these two extremes.
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