Any results from Einstein@home?
Anonymous
10 Oct 2007 19:30:47 UTC
Topic 13603
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Excellent answer!
A few comments:
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The results from the S4 run is under internal review by the scientists and will be released "soon", I guess.
We intend to publish them before the end of this year.
It took us much longer than expected to develop the post-processing pipeline for S4. It currently looks straightforward to pipe the results of S5R1/S5RI through the same pipeline, which should give a much shorter delay than we had for S4.
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b) begin to suspect that the theory is wrong because we should have discovered something if it were right.
My very personal opinion on this is that if we don't find what we are looking for I'd rather expect something to be wrong with the search than with Einstein's theory. It might be some technical issue with the detectors or the data analysis, but I guess most likely there would be something wrong with our idea of how a gravitational wave looks like.
BM