Re: What's up with gravity wave detection?

From: ZZBunker (zzbunker_at_netscape.net)
Date: 08/18/04 

Date: 18 Aug 2004 12:51:39 -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.

  It's not that interesting since scientists
  usually spend billions of dollars doing nothing.

  And since saying that gravity waves are
  thoroughly understod is the same thing
  as gravity particles are thoroughly
  understood, both statements which
  are quark-quantum crapola, the experiment
  is obviously not meant to be understood by quantum-chemists,
  or astro-physicists, since it has no magents involved.

  Since to be being with the experiment is not
  even detecting waves. The wave detection
  is a third order effect of the entire setup.
  Since Laser interferometry can't "detect"
  ANYTHING, nevermind a gravity wave.

Relevant Pages

  • LIGO Observations Probe the Dynamics of the Crab Pulsar (Forwarded)
    ... LIGO Observations Probe the Dynamics of the Crab Pulsar ... -- The search for gravitational waves has revealed new ...
    (sci.space.news)
  • LIGO Observations Probe the Dynamics of the Crab Pulsar (Forwarded)
    ... LIGO Observations Probe the Dynamics of the Crab Pulsar ... the emission of gravitational waves. ...
    (sci.astro)
  • Re: LIGO is coming into operation in stages
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  • LIGO claims in recnt news.
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    (sci.physics.research)
  • Re: LIGO is coming into operation in stages
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    (sci.physics)