Re:Strange Noise in Gravitational-Wave Data Sparks Debate
by dboreham on Saturday July 01, 2017 @07:37AM
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The pattern is in a different dimension than the noise (time vs spatial). A pattern by definition isn't noise.
Re:Strange Noise in Gravitational-Wave Data Sparks Debate
by mirimir on Saturday July 01, 2017 @07:51AM
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Well, except:
> The main claim of Jackson’s team is that there appears to be correlated noise in the detectors at the time of the gravitational-wave signal. This might mean that, at worst, the gravitational-wave signal might not have been a true signal at all, but just louder noise.
If that's an accurate characterization, "louder noise" does seem a lot like signal.
Couldn't the "correlated noise" just be a superposition of numerous small gravitational-wave signals?
Cosmic background radiation is noise but it can be mapped out into a pattern. Could the correlation be a view of a type of cosmic background gravitational waves?