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Re:Have Gravitational Waves Been Detected? by Pitarou on Sunday March 16, 2014 @10:18PM (#7412508)
If you see a headline that asks a yes-no question, the answer is almost always, "No."
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Re:Have Gravitational Waves Been Detected? by hemmer on Sunday March 16, 2014 @10:44PM (#7412592)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
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Re:Have Gravitational Waves Been Detected? by InclinedPlane on Monday March 17, 2014 @07:49AM (#7414484)
If you don't know anything about the subject then deciding the answer to a yes/no question without any data or logic is a useless exercise.

In this case the answer is almost certainly "yes", not least because gravitational waves have already been detected anyway, though as with the current experiment indirectly.

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Re:Have Gravitational Waves Been Detected? by Pitarou on Monday March 17, 2014 @06:02PM (#7418430)
Damn! The one time I quote Betteridge's Law (thanks, hemmer), and it turns out the answer is "yes".
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