Posted on 02/07/2016 10:18:53 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Accelerate a charge and you'll get electromagnetic radiation: light. But accelerate any mass and you'll get gravitational radiation. Light is seen all the time, but, so far, a confirmed direct detection of gravitational radiation has been elusive. When absorbed, gravitational waves create a tiny symmetric jiggle similar to squashing a rubber ball and letting go quickly. Separated detectors can be used to discern gravitational waves from everyday bumps. Powerful astronomical sources of gravitational radiation would coincidentally jiggle even detectors on opposite ends of the Earth. Pictured here are the four-kilometer-long arms of one such detector: the LIGO Hanford Observatory in Washington state, USA. Together with its sister interferometer in Louisiana, these gravitational wave detectors continue to be upgraded and are now more sensitive than ever.
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[Credit and Copyright: LIGO, Caltech, MIT, NSF]
But they have yet to detect any gravitons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-FSFtoeagc
I really envy/admire you guys that can follow all this stuff.
not envy in a “i want his house and car!” kind of way lol.
just of the knowledge you’ve acquired.
Looks like a giant Flux Capacitor.
LIGO my GEO.
The most complete theory of everything I know of says that gravitational waves propagate at 4/3 the speed of light. I wonder if they are set up to detect such a phenomenon.
On Google Earth or Google Maps you can find the LIGO at:
46.455332, -119.407042 or 46°27’19.2”N, 119°24’25.4”W
Re: “Accelerate a charge and you’ll get electromagnetic radiation: light. But accelerate any mass and you’ll get gravitational radiation.”
I don’t understand the basic concept here.
Since “charge” is present in all protons and electrons, and since protons and electrons have “mass,” it seems like “acceleration” in some types of “mass” is exactly the same thing as “acceleration” in “charge.”
You will be hearing an announcement soon from Hanford LIGO that will set your gravitons a-twitter.
Correlating effects with subsequent causes is... problematic.
I can detect a gravitational wave every morning on my bathroom scale.
“Together with its sister interferometer in Louisiana, these gravitational wave detectors continue to be upgraded and are now more sensitive than ever.”
As sensitive as Ben Carson? I think not.
It will cause your beber to be stuned nearly every time.
Right. So if they are detected going faster than C then General Relativity would only be an approximation at solar system scales.
I believe a statement is due this coming Thursday heralding the detection of gravity waves.
Do they even know IF gravity comes in waves?
We are still befuddled over the wave/particle aspect of what we call light.
Yes! We is smart!
The confusion arises because we observed the electromagnetic charge first, and when most people hear the word "charge" they think of electric charge, which is only positive or negative. The color charge of the strong nuclear force actually corresponds to three distinct charges, which in some combinations are attractive, in others, repulsive.
Any accelerating charge produces radiation corresponding to the charge. In the case that you're talking about, an accelerating electron will produce both electromagnetic radiation [from its accelerating electromagnetic charge] and gravitational radiation [from its accelerating mass.]
There is another symmetry: in every Lorentz frame [frame of reference in uniform motion -- not accelerating -- with respect to another Lorentz frame] there should also be an analogue of the magnetic component of the electromagnetic field. Consequently, there is also a "gravitational magnetic field." It is extremely weak. Too weak to measure.
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