LIGO.

For some years now I have from time to time kept up with developments at the LIGO sites. Just checked again and saw that "Gravitational waves" should be being detected by 2005.
Well it is now 2007, and I ain't heard nuthin!
Since 1989 I have had a bet with some of my old colleagues at Auckland university that these waves (if they exist at all) will not be detectable by such a system.
Indeed we are apparently looking for a "wave" whose velocity of propagation is not known at all, and whose characteristics may involve extra dimensions of Space or even other potential universes.
I would just love to be proved wrong: as it would at least mean that physics was on the right track, but I don't think that I will.
Note to LIGO produce fully backed up measurements of a gravitational wave, like a coincidence with a GRB, and I'll donate $50 from a retired electronics engineer.
BTW it has happened before look up "Nancy radiation" in the very early
20th century some time.
It may not be much. But at least I'm putting some money where my mouth is!!!
Regards Cliff Wright.
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