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4TRANdan · 2990 days ago · link · · parent · post: Gravitational Waves have been detected for the first time.
It wasn't entirely an act of faith, to say that GW's existed. There is a binary neutron star system discovered decades ago, whose orbit has been decaying exactly as expected by gravitational radiation. That was an indirect detection, though, and therefore much less reliable than what we have now.