OKOKOK{"id":3975,"date":"2017-09-30T02:53:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T06:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2017-10-20T00:46:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T04:46:59","slug":"kaku-on-newest-gravity-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/kaku-on-newest-gravity-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"KAKU ON NEWEST GRAVITY WAVES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/videos\/new-gravitational-waves-detected\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/cbsn-kaku-gravity-waves-detected-2017.jpg\" alt=\"Click to Watch Video\" title=\"Click to Watch Video\" width=\"450\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full noborder\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/tag\/cbsn\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/cbsn-logo.png\" alt=\"Click for more CBSN posts\" title=\"Click for more CBSN posts\" width=\"200\" height=\"47\" class=\"alignleft size-full noborder\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Early last year, scientists made a breakthrough discovery of gravitational waves in the wild, signaling the dawn of a new subfield of astronomy. This week, separate observatories in <strong>Washington<\/strong>, <strong>Louisiana<\/strong>, and <strong>Italy<\/strong> independently detected and collectively confirmed more gravitational waves in the wild &mdash; this time from the collision of two black holes about 2 billion light-years from Earth. Gravity waves pick up cosmic events that are invisible or nearly impossible to measure by any other means. By combining observations of a single event using multiple means, it&#8217;s now possible to gain a more complete understanding of the source&#8217;s properties than ever before. This method is called <strong>multi-messenger astronomy<\/strong>. <strong>CBS NEWS<\/strong> science and futurist contributor, <a href=\"http:\/\/mkaku.org\"><strong>Dr. Michio Kaku<\/strong><\/a>, joins <strong>CBSN<\/strong> to break down what this discovery means for the future of astronomy. <a target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/videos\/new-gravitational-waves-detected\/\"><strong>WATCH NOW!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early last year, scientists made a breakthrough discovery of gravitational waves in the wild, signaling the dawn of a new subfield of astronomy. This week, separate observatories in Washington, Louisiana, and Italy independently detected and collectively confirmed more gravitational waves in the wild &mdash; this time from the collision of two black holes about 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58,57,1,59],"tags":[642,447,12,166,436,438,437,446,652,442,637,641,640,639,439,70,638],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3975"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3982,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions\/3982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}