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When LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, measured this gravitational wave created by the collision of two black holes in a galaxy long ago, far away. Far, far away. This washed over the experiment, specifically, exquisitely designed to detect a ripple in the fabric of space and time.
It had to be so sensitive it could detect a change in position equal to 1/100th the diameter of an atomic nucleus. It's not even a number. Okay. Okay.
If you have powers of telepathy, of mind reading, of whatever, that's going to show up in that experiment because we are monitoring the behavior of all matter and energy that is interacting with other matter and energy. If we don't see that, I'm giving very low confidence that you're actually doing anything interesting.
Let me tell you how sensitive it is. If someone is walking a half a mile down the street, it'll send a vibration into the earth that they could detect. So, they, everybody's on shutdown when they're doing the experiment. And there's some things they can't avoid, like the gurgling of the earth. So they model that and then they subtract it out from the data.
So that's how precise science is. And earlier on, you said science is cocky. They think they understand it. What we do understand, we're justifiably cocky. But we don't understand, otherwise you're just an