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19 points·taubek··8 comments

Clickbait. This describes a method which might lead to "direct detection" not a paper announcing that detection.

TBF, it's exactly the title of the article, and going by my experience with titles of scientific papers, limited as it may be, papers proposing some method of doing something often omit the "Proposal for..." from the title.

What you said does not make it any less clickbaity which is the complain of the parent comment

Well click bait implies intent to trick people into clicking and the title of this article is not that as it would be known from context that proposal is implied, the person who submitted it here could be accused of click bait as they should have known how it would be interpreted.

To be clear, the article title isn't inappropriate in a scientific context, but it does feel like clickbait to post it here: I can't see anything about this paper that would make it exciting to non-specialists.

They were working on LIGO for 20+ years before it went live.

I was in a physics PhD program in the 1990s and remember attending a talk where they simulated a neutron star collision and showed what the gravitational wave chirp looked like and it was exactly like the real gravitational wave chirps they measured later.

So personally I like hearing about little ‘big science’ projects such as detectors for rare radioactivity (proton decay, dark matter recoils, majorana neutrinos) and this project which may lead to a sun grazing satellite.

I guess this is the full text. https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.07674

That headline is so misleading.

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