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The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Noise from the Absolute Reference Frame: Will LIGO Have to be Redesigned?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Catania, Joseph A. |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | LIGO (The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) attempts to detect gravitational-waves by the effect they have on a Michelson-Morley interferometer. As the waves pass through the interferometer, whose arms are 4 km long, they are supposed to induce relative length contractions and expansions of the arms which cause fringe-shifts at the detector of the interferometer. The sensitivity to length contractions are claimed to be "about 10-18 m, less than one-thousandth the charge diameter of a proton."1 As of this writing (2/23/2015) no gravitational-waves have been detected. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://vixra.org/pdf/1411.0375v2.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://vixra.org/pdf/1411.0375v1.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
