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Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to earthquakes

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Re: Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to earthquakes

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Looks like the electric universe people have found their way onto this website. Some guy in this thread was even promoting a debunked disaster prediction app that was created by a lawyer who is not a scientist. Literally the first paragraph, “Scientists have identified a striking correlation between global seismic activity – earthquakes, to be precise – and changes in the intensity of cosmic radiation measured on Earth’s surface.” Cool, a correlation, not really “directly linked to.” Correlation is not causation.

Re: Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to earthquakes

#222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>gravity wave LIGO, the gravity wave detecting interferometer, has arms 4 kilometers long. Along that distance, it can detect a change in length one ten thousandth the diameter of a proton. With an instrument that sensitive, it can just barely detect a handful of gravity waves a year, out of the thousands? that occur in the observable universe. Gravity waves are subtle things.

There are different kinds of gravitational waves, LIGO doesn't see them all. Related: https://cplberry.com/2015/01/10/1408-0740/

> ground-based detectors like LIGO measure the higher frequencies, pulsar timing arrays measure the lower frequencies, and space-borne detectors like eLISA measure stuff in the middle.

Does this data correlate with weather events, earthquakes or cosmic rays?

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