A reading of the article “Gravitational Waves” by Wal Thornhill. Narrated by David Harrison, proprietor of Stickman On Stone.
The headline shrieked, “Gravitational waves have been discovered; Einstein proved right again after 100 years.” This milestone from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) was announced in February 2016. Two weeks later, Wal posted his critical analysis.
Some incredibly detailed claims were made; the signal originated in the last fraction of a second before the fusion of two black holes somewhere in the southern sky, it was based on computer modeling that these black holes had joined 1.3 billion years ago, and they had a combined mass 29-to-36 times greater than the Sun.
A mathematical computer model is not real evidence for those claims. The public is being baffled by punctilious abstractions. This isn’t science.
Black holes are a flawed theoretical concept used to make the minuscule force of gravity responsible for the most energetic compact bursts of energy in the universe. However, what can succeed without stretching either space-time or credulity, is the most concentrated form of stored electromagnetic energy known to science—a plasmoid.
In summary, the results of the LIGO experiment have nothing to do with imagined Gravitational Waves.
