<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">According to the speed of gravity article, they measured the speed of gravitational waves compared to the speed of light, by recording the relative time that the two waves reached Earth from an event that occurred 130 million years ago when two neutron stars collided and thus emitted both gravitational waves and light waves.<br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">The gravitational waves and light waves arrived within 2 seconds of each other.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">The article concludes that the two speeds (gravity, light) are exactly the same (which on one hand makes sense).</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">However, how do they account for the 2 seconds difference in the arrival time of the two waves?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">I suspect that it's due to gravitational influence of objects between us and the two neutron stars, or maybe the distance between locations of the two instruments on or near Earth (but I would have expected them to account for this). Or maybe the light was emitted by the neutron star collision just a little before or after the gravitational waves.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">Anyone here have any thoughts on this?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">-steve</span><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 2:23 PM john rudy <<a href="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net">jjrudy1@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg5097094879296065403"><div bgcolor="white" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" lang="EN-US"><div class="m_5097094879296065403WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Pretty interesting<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">John Rudy<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">781-861-0402<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">781-718-8334 (cell)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:John.rudy@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">John.rudy@alum.mit.edu</span></a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">13 Hawthorne Lane<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Bedford, MA 01730-1047<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img style="width: 1.0312in; 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Today, if I really wanted to scare people, I would dress up as willful ignorance. Unfortunately, I don’t know what that costume would look like. Feel free to email me with suggestions!<br><br>As all of you know, ignorance is vanquished in this newsletter. And this week, we feature more great stories: the speed of gravity, the secret to becoming an excellent physicist, and <span style="background:rgb(255,204,153)">why black widows bite so many men in the “junk.”</span> Yikes.<br><br>Be careful out there,<br>Alex<u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:22.5pt 13.5pt 0in;min-width:100%"><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border:medium none;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1"><tbody><tr><td style="border-color:black currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:6pt medium medium;padding:0in;min-width:100%"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:6.75pt 0in 0in" valign="top"><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td style="width:225pt;padding:0in" width="300" valign="top"><table style="max-width:225pt;border-collapse:collapse;word-break:break-word" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 13.5pt 6.75pt" valign="top"><h3><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif">THE BIG EXPLANATION</span></strong><u></u><u></u></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:rgb(32,32,32)"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><h1><a href="https://bigthink.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8275a58d856c36f1f7ed062e&id=71098af234&e=fec0247b6d" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black;text-decoration:none">How fast is gravity, exactly?</span></strong></a><u></u><u></u></h1></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td style="width:225pt;padding:0in;word-break:break-word" width="300" valign="top"><table style="max-width:225pt;border-collapse:collapse" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 13.5pt 6.75pt" valign="top"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:150%"><a href="https://bigthink.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8275a58d856c36f1f7ed062e&id=9bc7adbe49&e=fec0247b6d" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black;text-decoration:none"><img style="width: 2.75in; height: 1.5312in;" id="m_5097094879296065403_x0000_i1030" src="https://mcusercontent.com/d8275a58d856c36f1f7ed062e/images/27f47f04-2d85-7d12-6e25-644ecc68c90b.png" width="264" height="147" border="0"></span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:rgb(32,32,32)"><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:6.75pt 0in 0in" valign="top"><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td style="width:6.25in;padding:0in;max-width:100%;min-width:100%" width="600" valign="top"><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;word-break:break-word" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 13.5pt 6.75pt" valign="top"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:rgb(32,32,32)">I know what some of you are thinking: 9.8 meters per second squared! 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probably <a href="https://bigthink.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8275a58d856c36f1f7ed062e&id=b090a55e59&e=fec0247b6d" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">the smartest person who ever lived</span></a>. But, good news! You don’t have to be an unparalleled genius to be successful at physics. What you do have to do is your homework — and lots of it. Being a good physicist means working through tough math problems so that you can develop an intuitive sense for <span style="background:rgb(255,204,153)">what is real and what is nonsense.</span><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 13.5pt 13.5pt" valign="top"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;border:medium none" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1"><tbody><tr><td style="border:1pt solid windowtext;padding:12pt;border-radius:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif"><a href="https://bigthink.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8275a58d856c36f1f7ed062e&id=97cb9536d1&e=fec0247b6d" title="LEARN MORE" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">LEARN MORE</span></b></a> <u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:22.5pt 13.5pt 0in;min-width:100%"><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border:medium none;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1"><tbody><tr><td style="border-color:black currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:6pt medium medium;padding:0in;min-width:100%"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:6.75pt 0in 0in" valign="top"><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td style="width:225pt;padding:0in" width="300" valign="top"><table style="max-width:225pt;border-collapse:collapse;word-break:break-word" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 13.5pt 6.75pt" valign="top"><h3><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif">THE BIG SURPRISE</span></strong><u></u><u></u></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:rgb(32,32,32)"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><h1><a href="https://bigthink.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8275a58d856c36f1f7ed062e&id=8ef4496c86&e=fec0247b6d" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black;text-decoration:none">Why black widows bite so many men in the “junk”</span></strong></a><u></u><u></u></h1></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td style="width:225pt;padding:0in;word-break:break-word" width="300" valign="top"><table style="max-width:225pt;border-collapse:collapse" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 13.5pt 6.75pt" valign="top"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:150%"><a href="https://bigthink.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8275a58d856c36f1f7ed062e&id=70a601ad03&e=fec0247b6d" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:black;text-decoration:none"><img style="width: 2.75in; height: 1.5312in;" id="m_5097094879296065403_x0000_i1028" src="https://mcusercontent.com/d8275a58d856c36f1f7ed062e/images/74f64e87-ec41-9add-ac9f-47f3acb47050.png" width="264" height="147" border="0"></span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:rgb(32,32,32)"><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:6.75pt 0in 0in" valign="top"><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td style="width:6.25in;padding:0in;max-width:100%;min-width:100%" width="600" valign="top"><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;word-break:break-word" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 13.5pt 6.75pt" valign="top"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:rgb(32,32,32)">Black widow spiders live up to their name. Though people practically never die from the bite of a black widow, some of <span style="background:rgb(255,204,153)">the worst documented bites</span> have occurred on a man’s “junk.” Why? Well, black widows like to build their webs in dark places, like basements, garages, underneath decks — and outhouses.<u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 13.5pt 13.5pt" valign="top"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;border:medium none" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1"><tbody><tr><td style="border:1pt solid windowtext;padding:12pt;border-radius:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif"><a href="https://bigthink.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8275a58d856c36f1f7ed062e&id=5d52aa0ade&e=fec0247b6d" title="LEARN MORE" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">LEARN MORE</span></b></a> 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align="left"><tbody><tr><td style="width:6.25in;padding:0in;max-width:100%;min-width:100%" width="600" valign="top"><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;word-break:break-word" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 13.5pt 6.75pt" valign="top"><h1>Live smarter<u></u><u></u></h1><h2 style="margin-left:0.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u>The psychology of <a href="https://bigthink.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8275a58d856c36f1f7ed062e&id=fbf1d77ca1&e=fec0247b6d" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">keeping secrets inside</span></a><u></u><u></u></h2><h2 style="margin-left:0.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u>Meditation <a href="https://bigthink.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8275a58d856c36f1f7ed062e&id=057d46d7b9&e=fec0247b6d" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">reorganizes</span></a> the brain’s spatial topography<u></u><u></u></h2><h2 style="margin-left:0.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u>The psychology of <a href="https://bigthink.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8275a58d856c36f1f7ed062e&id=f7e9d30ab2&e=fec0247b6d" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">financial anxiety</span></a> — and how to overcome it<u></u><u></u></h2><h2 style="margin-left:0.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif">From the archive:</span></strong> <a href="https://bigthink.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8275a58d856c36f1f7ed062e&id=945119e950&e=fec0247b6d" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">Flow state</span></a>: How to trigger the best performance of your life<u></u><u></u></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:22.5pt 13.5pt 0in;min-width:100%"><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border:medium none;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1"><tbody><tr><td style="border-color:black currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:1pt medium medium;padding:0in;min-width:100%"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%" 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