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Re:Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to ... by sbierwagen on Friday June 16, 2023 @05:07PM (#36363888)
>gravity wave

LIGO, the gravity wave detecting interferometer, has arms 4 kilometers long. Along that distance, it can detect a change in length one ten thousandth the diameter of a proton. With an instrument that sensitive, it can just barely detect a handful of gravity waves a year, out of the thousands? that occur in the observable universe. Gravity waves are subtle things.

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Re:Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to ... by Retric on Friday June 16, 2023 @06:00PM (#36364506)
I guess the question becomes if tectonic plates be more or less sensitive?

They are significantly impacted by tides for example.

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Re:Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to ... by deepsun on Friday June 16, 2023 @09:08PM (#36366119)
There are different kinds of gravitational waves, LIGO doesn't see them all.

Related: https://cplberry.com/2015/01/10/1408-0740/

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Re:Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to ... by Gravityloss on Sunday June 18, 2023 @04:57AM (#36378469)
> ground-based detectors like LIGO measure the higher frequencies, pulsar timing arrays measure the lower frequencies, and space-borne detectors like eLISA measure stuff in the middle.

Does this data correlate with weather events, earthquakes or cosmic rays?

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Re:Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to ... by tobinfricke on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @04:25PM (#36423887)
Weather events and earthquakes - no.

Cosmic rays - Astrophysical events that generate gravitational waves can also generate electromagnetic and particle emissions. If a black hole crashes into a neutron star, all kinds of stuff is going to come out.

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Re:Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to ... by nasalspirant on Saturday June 17, 2023 @07:33AM (#36369296)
Also, gravitational* waves. Gravity waves are something else: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_wave
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