Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "Neutron Star Merger Gravitational Waves and Gamma Rays" video.

  1. blacksheep837 think you're forgetting how insanely huge this event is energy wise. Pluto is a dark ball of ice and rock. This is one of the most energetic events in the universe. If that happened at the distance of pluto, we wouldn't be able to study is because we'd all be dead. Hell, if that happened by Alpha Centauri we'd probably all die too (or at least have a mass extinction event). These kinds of explosions are almost incomprehensibly huge and detectable at distances far far beyond where the stars themselves are no longer detectable.
    4
  2. ignatius thomas i don't blame him, this is awesome stuff
    1
  3. It's 1. Gravitational waves are produced by the spiraling of massive objects, not the collision itself (and the gamma ray burst probably starts with a slight time delay from first contact) The specific length of the time delay will certainly be used to refine models of such collisions in the comming months.
    1
  4. Countless people have thought he was wrong since he first put his theories forward and have been trying, and failing, to disprove them to no success. That's generally how science works.
    1