Comments on: Seeing Gravitational Waves With Atomic Clocks https://briankoberlein.com/2016/06/28/seeing-gravitational-waves-atomic-clocks/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:26:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: Brian Koberlein https://briankoberlein.com/2016/06/28/seeing-gravitational-waves-atomic-clocks/#comment-4437 Sun, 14 Aug 2016 20:33:16 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6054#comment-4437 When a gravitational wave passes there would also be a time dilation effect, but it’s extremely tiny. For the detection of gravitational waves, it’s insignificant.

]]> By: C.R. https://briankoberlein.com/2016/06/28/seeing-gravitational-waves-atomic-clocks/#comment-4435 Sun, 14 Aug 2016 16:12:35 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6054#comment-4435 As a gravitational wave passes through an object, does that observer move (ever so slightly) in a direction relative to another nearby observer ‘at or near the speed of light’? If so, does the non moving observer see ‘time dilation’ for the observer in the crest of the gravitational wave?

]]> By: Jean Tate https://briankoberlein.com/2016/06/28/seeing-gravitational-waves-atomic-clocks/#comment-4208 Wed, 29 Jun 2016 12:38:43 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6054#comment-4208 Cool!

Does this kind of detector have to be in space? Could it, for example, be on the surface of the Moon, or the ‘facing’ surfaces of a (synchronous, tidal-locked) binary asteroid?

Such locations may have the advantage of also testing/observing other phenomena. Of course, they’d also have more difficulty filtering out non-GWR signals …

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