Gravitons, blackholes, wigs.. He finished with: "We've done it; we've landed on the moon". I'm not sure I understand pic.twitter.com/zNelnJqItz— oioiiooixiii (@oioiiooixiii) February 11, 2016
After ITAR-TASS reporter Андрей Ситов (Andrei Sitov) congratulated them on their work, and asked about any involvement with Russia, the science folks scrambled around like someone just threw a stink bomb on stage #BooRussia
They had to double check all their figures, lest the gravitational waves they were measuring were ones caused by the mass of their own egos.— oioiiooixiii (@oioiiooixiii) February 11, 2016
The LIGO people were also very touchy when asked about how quickly they happened upon the results. It reminds me of that story about how it took Australian scientists 17 years to discover "alien" radio signals were caused by a dodgy microwave oven in the kitchen.¹
Incidentally: Rip Torn, I mean Kip Thorne, has a particular verbal tic, reminiscent of Ali G - "gravitational waves... Ayyyy".
¹ https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/34zejv/after_17_years_of_fruitlessly_searching_the/
info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO
source video: https://youtu.be/_582rU6neLc?t=50m42s
