Update on LIGO.
- From: cliff wright <c.c.wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:17:16 +1300
I guess its about time again for my regular question re experimental results from the LIGO observatories. I just checked some of their sites and papers and unless I missed it they STILL after several years do not have a single definite detection of a "Gravitational Wave". This is despite the observation of a very powerful, cosmologically close GRB
,which, so Physcists have told me, should be a powerful source of Gravitational radiation.
How long are we expected to wait and maintain these expensive and complex sets of apparatus before it becomes clear that either this radiation does not exist, or, even more likely, LIGO is as incapable of detecting it as an optical telescope with lead lenses.
What I would like to know is: just how strong is the theoretical and experimental basis for the present accepted theories involving this radiation?
Have those involved already modified their models in the light of the non results from LIGO?
I'm old enough to have been involved in science back in 1972 when the first alleged detection of "Gravity Waves" took place but so far it still seems even more of a Chimera than Fusion power.
Cliff Wright.
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