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[alinsa]

I've been rambling about this to tybarbary for the entire morning, talking about this discovery and translating what actually happened and what it actually means (both from a "what happened and what they measured" perspective and from a "what does this mean for the future of science" perspective); Ty kinda went "um, can you post everything you told me to LJ

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[rowyn]

All of our time is made out of space, and all that mass is messing up the nice smoothness of our space-time continuum.

[stickmaker]

Okay, the clip I heard on _Morning Edition_ *was* stretched by a factor of "several" then. I missed part of the segment so they may have mentioned that. The actual event recorded was under half a second.