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I saw this yesterday - it's an amazing amazing story and validates a lot. Proving this opens up a lot of doors for previously-fanciful research. This is exactly the kind of thing that leads to science fiction becoming (eventually) new inventions and technologies.

Einstein is one of my all-time top heroes (up there with Carl Sagan, Ghandi, Thomas Jefferson and a few others). If more people were like him we as a species would be SO much better off. He was brilliant beyond most of our understanding of what that word really means. One of those people that figured out exactly what he or she ought to do in life and excelled at it.

The LIGO inferometer itself is a pretty amazing creation as well - the level of precision it has is almost incomprehensible. And it was "only" $1.2 billion dollars - far less than we spend on nonsense like bombs and aid to terrorist nations and the like. If we truly had our priorities straight as a nation or as a civilization we could be SO far based on the brilliance of people like Einstein.

I'm curious to see where this leads - there's going to be some really cool research coming out of places like MIT, Caltech, etc. in the coming years...