Re: What's up with gravity wave detection?

From: Eric Flesch (eric_at_flesch.org)
Date: 09/02/04 

Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 08:34:05 GMT

I don't propose to get into a rigorous technical discussion, "Bilge"
-- that is your area of specialty. I have just two things to say:

(1) If QM and QED had been developed *before* GR, then nobody would
be using stress-tensors to describe light today. Why be ruled by an
accident of history?

(2) The experiment which you yourself described would test the
hypothesis admirably. The question is, does "in-flight" radiation
have weight? A device can be built with an emitter in a small
container, with a hatch which can be opened to allow light to beam
into an external mirrored container. The whole assembly is enclosed
and placed on a (very sensitive) weighing scale. When the hatch is
open the whole assembly should weigh less than when the hatch is
closed.

This experiment is doable with today's technology. A falsifiable
hypothesis and a practical experiment: what more would you want,
"Bilge"? And if it does indeed weigh less when the hatch is open, I'd
love to see your rigorous technical explanation of that.

cheers,
Eric

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