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Thank you BvU! My quick estimation was about 1300 miles, compared to about 1860 miles from Hanford to Livingston (is that about right?), but mostly I was going off the figure of 1.7c I keep seeing for the idea that the supposed g. wave was not traveling at precisely the speed of light.

Ibix, Thanks for your explanation. That actually makes a lot of sense the way you put it. I think I was originally thinking of it as being either perfectly vertical or horizontal without taking into account all of the possibilities in between! One thing I still don't understand though.. You...

I have a couple of questions regarding the new detection of signals believed to be gravitational waves at LIGO 1. Two similar signals were detected at both facilities. Why does the Livingston signal appear to be weaker than the Hanford signal? 2. The signal in Livingston was reported to have...