Five New Types of Gravitational-Wave Detectors Could Reshape Astrophysics https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/5-new-types-of-gravitational-wave-detectors-could-reshape-astrophysics/
@XSGeek @reportbywilson I’ve been worried that Dark Matter and Dark Energy are the luminiferous aether, I think we figured out you don’t need it for EM radiation.
@XSGeek My understanding is that general relativity also explains a lot of other phenomena we have observed like gravity lensing and the oddities of Mercury’s orbit. It’s also needed to make the GPS system work.
Where it falls down is on the cosmic scale when we see galaxies orbiting each other and the speed of stars orbiting near the galaxy’s edge.
As for EM radiation, we have the particle that carries the force, the photon.
There’s also the astronomic observations of neutrino flux and light from the actual merger of the 2 stellar blackholes or neutron stars that align to the gravitic waves.
Agreed, I and I don't love Black Holes because singularities are just math breaking down. I suspect the truth is somewhat different, but that we don't currently have the math to explain it.
There are definitely deep dark holes that swallow light and warp space-time, but there must be a there there, even if it's a Planck-length entity that exhibits quantum behavior and is largely indistinguishable from what we see currently as the singularity.