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- becomeme@sh.itjust.works
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Well, space isn’t a perfect vacuum, is it? It’s pretty damn close, but you’ll still encounter the occasional hydrogen molecule.
I mean, were talking about 1.7 seconds delay over a distance of 130 million lightyears! That’s virtually nothing.In fact, this might be a good way to measure the average density of loose matter in the universe.
Was thinking about that, too.
And if we had enough ligos throughout the solar system, maybe we could even image dark matter distributions.
They are not emitted simultaneously. The collision is messy. The GRB comes from leftover bits of neutron star.