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and then as March goes on, I ll have an exclusive interview with the Principal Investigator of LIGO, Dave Reitze (so drop me your questions here!), I ll be giving public talks in Portland, OR and in Memphis, TN at MidSouthCon, and then we have some even bigger events coming up in the spring! But there s no reason to dawdle any further; there s some great science to dive into right now on this edition of our Comments Of The Week! Image credit: NASA.
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virtual gravitons: If I am understanding correctly, there is a gravitational pull between any two massive bodies and that gravitational pull is facilitated through VIRTUAL gravitons. The radiation of VIRTUAL gravitons does not consume any energy or mass from either of the massive bodies and so the gravitational field could theoretically persist until the end of time. [.] However in the merger of black holes some energy is turned into REAL graviton particles and those should exhibit the particle-wave duality just as REAL ph