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Hi! If ever you add up another batch of instruments that could detect gravitational waves, plus further increase the sensitivity of LIGO and others, how do you foresee the likelihood of discovering gravitational waves? Would it be very frequent? And also, could LIGO detect other potential sources of gravitational waves such as neutron star collisions or neutron star-black hole binaries, or is LIGO not yet sensitive for that?

Does gravitational wave astrophysics purely incorporate Einstein's relativity? Or does it have any implications in quantum mechanics or physics beyond the standard model? If so, how and why?

Are the recently detected gravitational waves already in the limits of sensitivity of LIGO's detectors, or can the detectors still detect far fainter signals? If so, what are the limits of sensitivity? How do you upgrade LIGO?

About how many times have you asked yourselves, "Have we really detected this, guys?"? Hahaha Any possible plans for collaboration with CERN? Could the black holes merging or the resulting black hole formed have an accretion disk for EM based astronomers to observe them?

If the black hole merger happened, say, only about 1000 light years away, how "large" of a distortion would be the effect of gravitational waves on us and Earth?