Will the discovery and subsequent research into gravity waves help with the invention of the hover board that, according to Back to the Future, we were supposed to have by last year?

Gravity waves were predicted by Einstein back when speculation was rampant about the possible existence of black holes. What makes you think that a device is in our future capable of generating a wave force counterbalancing that generated by a mass the size of the earth. Believe me, were such a method or device concocted, hover boards would be so low on the list of priorities, that few would care or even notice. That’s one of the truckload of inconsistencies with the BTF franchise. Hover boards all over the place while all the cars roll around on primitive wheels.

Despite my son’s attempt to persuade me otherwise, Back to the Future does not rate in its predictive quotient as highly as Nostrodamus, and only a bit more that the Old Farmer’s Almanac.

show me a home fusion Cuisnart composter/reactor, and I’ll give you a hoverboard.

That is what I am asking. Since we now have proof that gravity can be changed/effected will we be able to harness it to make an anti-gravity, space-time warping future?

I think the only thing proved was the EXISTENCE of gravitational waves, and it required the collision of 2 black holes approaching one another at near the speed of light. There is an exceedingly long reach from the knowledge of gravitational waves to manipulating gravity for practical purposes.

No.