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  • The cold pole problem is due largely to the absence of gravity-wave forcing, which many models now include.

    Future changes in ozone in the Arctic 2009

  • Differences in gravity-wave and planetary-wave simulations as well as model resolution can lead to very different projections of polar temperatures and transport of ozone to the poles.

    Future changes in ozone in the Arctic 2009

  • Might gravity-wave detectors eventually give us a way of directly observing dark matter in this way?

    Dark Matter: Still Existing Sean 2007

  • How likely is it that gravity-wave detectors, say a future version of something like LISA, might eventually allow us to specifically observe the locations and quantities of dark matter involved in formations like this?

    Dark Matter: Still Existing Sean 2007

  • And even though they've all moved on to greater things, like retiring from movies forever or making dull-looking films about gravity-wave strengths and their temporal signatures as observed on the Earth or, um, Firewall – Indiana Jones 4 has never been too far from the surface.

    George Lucas Talks Indiana Jones 5 Deliberately To Spite You 2007

  • For future possibilities we highlighted two vision missions: a Big Bang Observer to directly detect the gravity-wave background from inflation, and a Black Hole Imager to resolve X-rays from right next to the event horizons of black holes.

    To Infinity, Although Beyond Might Be Too Expensive Sean 2007

  • But, although it must be galling for Steven Spielberg to see all his carefully-kept secrets being spewed everywhere, at least there's a plus side to all this – Spielberg is going to make damn sure that nobody steals any secrets from his film about gravity-wave strengths and their temporal signatures as observed on the Earth, possibly because we can't see anyone actually going to see it after it's been released anyway.

    New Indiana Jones Trailer Means It’s Either Good, Bad, Or Neither 2007

  • A film about gravity-wave strengths and their temporal signatures as observed on the Earth, that's what.

    Tom Cruise Sneaks Up On Steven Spielberg At Dinner 2006

  • "They could measure the effects of shadow matter on their system," Peter said, "and they could record the gravity-wave messages and when they interpreted the messages properly, the ships they built worked, and they were propelled toward their remote destinations by unseen forces."

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • One screen displayed stars and other stellar phenomena, not according to their output of visible light, but in gravity-wave sche'matics.

    The Black Hole Foster, Alan Dean 1979

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