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Panoramix on Feb 11, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Ein...

They also injected fake signals into the detector now and then, partly to keep the analysts on their toes.

http://www.ligo.org/news/blind-injection.php

bbcbasic on Feb 11, 2016 [–]

I don't think they are expected to tell its fake though? It's hard to do a double blind experiment without a "placebo universe".

kordless on Feb 11, 2016 | [–]

That's a rather loaded philosophical question you are asking there - assuming you are serious about the double blind experiment.

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