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We've been “detecting space-time distortions” by means of falling for quite some time.

An announcement of an announcement is always off-topic here, so we changed the URL from http://www.ligo.org/news/media-advisory.php to that article, which is much more substantive. Thanks!

The announcement itself, of course, will be on topic when it happens, but we can be patient.

FWIW, there's also https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/09/watch-this-s..., with no adblock issues.

Ok, we changed to that from http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/02/09/what-....

> Sure, it travels through space at the speed of light, but it itself is a ripple in the fabric of space

I don't believe that's been proven yet. I was under the impression that this was an experiment to provide evidence of the speed of gravity propagation.

Sure, it's not been actually measured yet, but if it does anything different from that, we would have to do a pretty massive rewrite of several chapters of physics. It's a little unlikely.

That being said, of course, anything could happen. Nature is not bound to follow our assumptions.