Re: What's up with gravity wave detection?

From: Mike (eleatis_at_yahoo.gr)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: 16 Aug 2004 11:37:51 -0700

"Australopithecus Afarensis" <fossil.lucy@cox.net> wrote in message news:<zQXTc.100010$sh.86278@fed1read06>...
> > Most likely LIGO will detect gravitational waves.
> > See: http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/
> > http:/www.edu-observatory.org/eo/cosmology.html
>
> It is very interesting how institutions would spend millions of dollars
> trying to detect something that has not been thoroughly understood. As I
> read in Scientific American a year or two ago, LIGO was chosen to be built
> in places where noise generated by human activities are at near maximum.
> This means LIGO's detection of gravitational waves is subjected to broad and
> creative interpretations of data which can easily be explained by something
> else.

They will detect nothing but thermal noise and geo vibrations. Signal
to noise ratio will be too low to make anything out of that. Any
signal processing applied will open the room to subjectivity.

Another one bites the dust. Gravity will always stay a mystery.

Mike

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