GEO 600

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by glittle</i>
<br />Can you provide any comments or predictions about what this new facility, and others like it, should expect to observe?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">In a word, nothing. It is now generally agreed that disturbances of the "space-time medium" (read: "aether" or "elysium") would produce gravitational waves. But to avoid the obvious, modern-day relativists have proposed that these will be quantum "spin-2" waves. So the detectors are looking only for spin-2 waves.

But the obvious interpretation is that disturbances of elysium/aether will be simply very-long-wavelength light waves ("photons"), which are necessarily spin-1. Therefore, the detectors are doomed to fail. But they will provide jobs and careers for many, which is perhaps their main purpose. And after no "waves" are seen in conjunction with the next supernova event, which might be decades away, the criteria for a "match" between detectors will be loosened until matches are finally found. After all, many people will be heavily invested in the project by then. -|Tom|-

The current practice of funding this stuff is because models are generating bogus results that everyone believes are real. Why do the people who control the funding think it is in the best interest of everyone involved to keep redoing these experiments every few years? Is there no way to change the process? Maybe we have to wait until a better mouse trap gomes along.