Comments on: The Strangest Theory We Know Is True

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 03:19:15 +0000

Loved this write-up. You should up-date with the new discovery.

By: Dean Soares

Dean Soares — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 19:55:04 +0000

From what I understand the sun doesn’t have a strong enough effect on gravity to detect gravity waves. I spoke with a scientist who works on the LIGO project at Caltech, he said it is designed to detect waves caused by galaxies or black holes colliding. Which would put the sun several magnitudes of order out from the mass needed to cause detectable waves.

By: Jesse Gilbride

Jesse Gilbride — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:25:31 +0000

Food for thought: I would imagine that gravity waves would have much greater amplitude when observed closer to their source. Since the sun is the closest massive object, would it not make sense to perform experiments near it? Extreme radiation is a challenge for any device/probe, but if memory serves, Mercury is locked in a non-rotational orbit and the ‘dark side’ of it remains facing away. Could we then put the experiments there? Would there be other gravitational forces from the sun that interfere? If so, perhaps the perturbations can be cancelled out with multiple devices at different positions/distances (based on measurement data).