gravity wave detectors

Daniel — 2/5/2004 9:56:30 PM (archived)

any thoughts/comments on the viability of existing or proposed laser interferometer gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO, LISA etc? Assuming Einstein is right and gravity waves do exist - but the order of magnitude is something like 10^-22 m ! The noise-filtering and signal-detection problems/tasks beggar the imagination ..
Are these projects white elephants or is there a chance they could detect radiation from massive/nearby astrophysical events?
All comments welcome ..
Daniel

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gravity wave detectors - Daniel - 2/5/2004 9:56:30 PM
- Extremely violent events, such as a supernova, merger of two black holes, etc might create sufficiently strong gravity waves to be detected here by existing detectors. But even these events would nee… (n/t) - David F Mayer - 2/9/2004 5:05:10 PM
- re: gravity wave detectors - R.L. - 2/6/2004 4:53:04 AM
  - acknowledged - Daniel - 2/6/2004 5:54:45 AM
- Never bet against Einstein - alcaray - 2/6/2004 12:06:08 AM

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