craigb
Joke not-withstanding, that story was pretty interesting!  For those that missed this little blurp: "Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time" this means we might expect some portals to other time dimensions.  Maybe MTV will be relevant again? 

Heh. Ya, you know I like this type of thing and the OP was totally serious.
 
Then I was reminded of that gag and could not resist.
 
This is indeed some important movement forward... and there has been quite a few significant ones as of late. This all seems like the renaissance of modern physics.
 
Lurv this crap.
 
Makes me have hope for humanity after all.
 
Live long and prosper, fellow sentient being.
 
\\//

Did I just invent a LLAP emoticon?
 
Wow.
 
canihavesomemoneynow?

Why isn't  don't short for donut?

BECAUSE one is a negative and one is a positive 

\X/  (Gang symbol?)
 
-/=  This was always the Starship Enterprise in the text-based HP-2000 game.

This is what I thought was the coolest part of that article:
 

Albert Einstein first predicted these waves in 1916 in his general theory of relativity. They remained undetected until 2015, almost 100 years later.

craigb
This is what I thought was the coolest part of that article:
 

Albert Einstein first predicted these waves in 1916 in his general theory of relativity. They remained undetected until 2015, almost 100 years later.

Absolutely. I was about to go on a diatribe about how the physics community were in a derptastic holding pattern for about 50 years or so while they tried to figure out what in the bloody amazeballs he was yammering on about and THEN waiting for//inventing/engineering/building the tech to test these types of things.
 
Einstein, yo.
 
He was a stone cold OPG (Original Physics Gangsta).
 
 

If you want another guy to check out, then this is the one:
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
 
I've read the book (later made into a movie) called "The Man Who Knew Infinity" and he's another genetic freak from the Einstein and Tesla mold.  Mathematicians are STILL trying to figure out some of his theories!

 
Cool stuff.