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→More regarding the criticism of LIGO: Yes, that is why some people predicted that LIGO would fail
:::::I just want to make sure that the people here criticizing LIGO understand that the frequency range of the gravitational waves it was built to detect predict a variations in spacetime by only a factor of 10^-21. LIGO's longest vacuum tubes are 4km long. So physicists are attempting to measure a change in length approximately 1/2500th the diameter of an atomic nucleus.
:::::I just want to make sure that the people here criticizing LIGO understand that the frequency range of the gravitational waves it was built to detect predict a variations in spacetime by only a factor of 10^-21. LIGO's longest vacuum tubes are 4km long. So physicists are attempting to measure a change in length approximately 1/2500th the diameter of an atomic nucleus.
:::::: Yes, that is why some people predicted that LIGO would fail. [[User:RSchlafly|RSchlafly]] 10:58, 7 April 2009 (EDT)
And to the poster who linked to youtube video of "gravity waves". Those ARE NOT gravity waves. Those are clouds.
And to the poster who linked to youtube video of "gravity waves". Those ARE NOT gravity waves. Those are clouds.