We only do a part of the work. We do not do enough work to "find something". The work we do is broken up into pieces for us to analyze, send back that information, then they take all that data, send it through more processing, and then get their answer. Can you be the "one" that finds the magic signal, no. You are apart of a large team who may find a signal.
S4 has been done on our side for months, yet their side could take years to find out if the data we gathered had any significant meaning.
are there a reason in Boinc, when do we find something?
There's a host of BOINC'able projects of a wide range of subject matter, with various targets. The idea is to contribute to ( your personal selection of ) efforts to advance the frontier of knowledge in a given area. Generally the scientists involved don't otherwise have the resources to do that without BOINC type help, or not in a timely fashion anyway.
Here at E@H BOINC users are a huge and integral part of a data analysis pipeline. At the big LIGO's ( Hanford, Washington and Livingstone, Louisiana and in future at others ) signals are being generated by a complicated control system that attempts to keep laser beams ( in world record sized vacuum chambers! ) bouncing 'in rhythm' between mirrors several kilometers apart. This becomes a sensitive 'ruler of spacetime' and, when all other causes of disturbance are eliminated, will hopefully declare evidence of gravity waves.
This is when the very fabric of our Universe is vibrating, like a floor rug being flicked, due to distant events of pretty unbelievable violence that occur and send out those oscillations. These wiggles subside in intensity with distance, in the manner of ripples on a pond, so they are quite subtle when they reach us here. While it's a nuisance that we have to listen so hard to these quivering signs ( less than the diameter of a proton! ) it's probably a good thing we that aren't closer to the astronomical happenings that cause them. These are collisions between black holes, neutrons stars and stuff that would make the neighbourhood quite unhealthy for us.
When such detections are made ( thus far the LIGO's have been well calibrated and are producing massive amounts of science data ) many aims will have been achieved. Chief among these is ( further ) confirmation of Einstein's of Theory General Relativity, which describes all this spacetime movement, but there are a host of others. As Pooh says it is a prolonged and tedious affair to tease out the information.
For myself I essentially do it because I've had a long fascination with physics, Relativity specifically, and I'm an unashamed computer tool-head! We each have our own motivations, but even if you ignore the science there is: the fun, the competition, meet'n'greeting, humor often .........
Cheers and Welcome, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
I wonder?
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We only do a part of the work. We do not do enough work to "find something". The work we do is broken up into pieces for us to analyze, send back that information, then they take all that data, send it through more processing, and then get their answer. Can you be the "one" that finds the magic signal, no. You are apart of a large team who may find a signal.
S4 has been done on our side for months, yet their side could take years to find out if the data we gathered had any significant meaning.
RE: are there a reason in
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There's a host of BOINC'able projects of a wide range of subject matter, with various targets. The idea is to contribute to ( your personal selection of ) efforts to advance the frontier of knowledge in a given area. Generally the scientists involved don't otherwise have the resources to do that without BOINC type help, or not in a timely fashion anyway.
Here at E@H BOINC users are a huge and integral part of a data analysis pipeline. At the big LIGO's ( Hanford, Washington and Livingstone, Louisiana and in future at others ) signals are being generated by a complicated control system that attempts to keep laser beams ( in world record sized vacuum chambers! ) bouncing 'in rhythm' between mirrors several kilometers apart. This becomes a sensitive 'ruler of spacetime' and, when all other causes of disturbance are eliminated, will hopefully declare evidence of gravity waves.
This is when the very fabric of our Universe is vibrating, like a floor rug being flicked, due to distant events of pretty unbelievable violence that occur and send out those oscillations. These wiggles subside in intensity with distance, in the manner of ripples on a pond, so they are quite subtle when they reach us here. While it's a nuisance that we have to listen so hard to these quivering signs ( less than the diameter of a proton! ) it's probably a good thing we that aren't closer to the astronomical happenings that cause them. These are collisions between black holes, neutrons stars and stuff that would make the neighbourhood quite unhealthy for us.
When such detections are made ( thus far the LIGO's have been well calibrated and are producing massive amounts of science data ) many aims will have been achieved. Chief among these is ( further ) confirmation of Einstein's of Theory General Relativity, which describes all this spacetime movement, but there are a host of others. As Pooh says it is a prolonged and tedious affair to tease out the information.
For myself I essentially do it because I've had a long fascination with physics, Relativity specifically, and I'm an unashamed computer tool-head! We each have our own motivations, but even if you ignore the science there is: the fun, the competition, meet'n'greeting, humor often .........
Cheers and Welcome, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal