dead in the water
Jul. 2nd, 2009 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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We have so far failed in our efforts to fix the detector. The patient has refused all transplants; something is wrong with our procedure. Electrostatic damage? Microscopic bits of metal from the can-opening procedure? Some kind of strange damage in shipping? We've used up all our spare photodiodes. The Project's last two spares are being overnighted from Caltech.
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Date: 2009-07-03 03:25 am (UTC)I went to a talk today at Harvard--not a high-powered specialist talk but a generalist talk, including summer students in the audience. It was on gamma-ray bursts. The long-period bursts may be collapsars while the short-period bursts may be merging neutron stars. The latter could be proved if only we could find gravitational waves from them. And we could with your fix-up! Several short-period gamma bursts a year would be close enough. I thought of you...
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