Category Archives: LIGO

Brian Clegg: Gravity

Posted on July 17, 2012 by PlatoHagel

A history of gravity, and a study of its importance and relevance to our lives, as well as its influence on other areas of science.  Physicists will tell you that four forces control the universe. Of these, gravity may the … Continue reading →

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Core Optics

Posted on June 26, 2012 by PlatoHagel

A pair of polished Advanced LIGO end mirrors (ETM’s) Core optics are the 40-kg masses that form the heart of a LIGO detector. A core optic is manufactured from fused silica, polished to a few nanometers of smoothness and coated … Continue reading →

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Weber Bars Ring True?

Posted on August 29, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Gravitational Radiation Gravitational waves have a polarization pattern that causes objects to expand in one direction, while contracting in the perpendicular direction. That is, they have spin two. This is because gravity waves are fluctuations in the tensorial metric of … Continue reading →

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Holometer

Posted on December 2, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Holometer Revised This plot shows the sensitivity of various experiments to fluctuations in space and time. Horizontal axis is the log of apparatus size (or duration time the speed of light), in meters; vertical axis is the log of the … Continue reading →

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Gravity is Talking, LISA will Listen

Posted on October 28, 2009 by PlatoHagel

It seems by measure the Interferometer has come a long way. If one recognizes how gravitational waves are measured, you come to understand how they can have a affect on laser light. Bee and Stefan of Backreaction have gone to … Continue reading →

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Correlating Gravitational Wave Production in LIGO

Posted on September 22, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Drawing by Glen Edwards, Utah State University, Logan, UT The most important thing is to be motivated by your own intellectual curiosity.KIP THORNE ***   Fig. 1. The four forces (or interactions) of Nature, their force carrying particles and the … Continue reading →

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Gran Sasso and the Pyramid

Posted on July 27, 2008 by PlatoHagel

What good is a universe without somebody around to look at it?Robert Dicke This summer, CERN gave the starting signal for the long-distance neutrino race to Italy. The CNGS facility (CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso), embedded in the laboratory’s accelerator … Continue reading →

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Breakthrough Propulsion Physics?

Posted on November 28, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Shuttle Main Engine Test Firing-1981-A remote camera captures a close-up view of a Space Shuttle Main Engine during a test firing at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi. Spacecraft propulsion is used to change the velocity … Continue reading →

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What is Dark Matter/Energy?

Posted on November 16, 2006 by PlatoHagel

When Chaos Goes Quantum? All events shown here (except KEK test detector) were generated by Monte-Carlo simulation program, written by Clark. The visualizing software which produced the detector images was written by Tomasz. While the sun was easily recognizable building … Continue reading →

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Now, here is a SuperNova for Real

Posted on September 1, 2006 by PlatoHagel

The Crab Nebula from VLT Credit: FORS Team, 8.2-meter VLT, ESO Now the “ultimate proof” is to hold in our hands the matters defined by objects. This is the culmination of all dimensional perspectives, being “condensed to the moment” we … Continue reading →

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