I'm still trying to figure out what doors this will open up for science. There are times when I wish I had some math ability beyond addition and subtraction, and physics is definitely one of the subjects I wish I had math ability. I saw in an article the statement that now that they know this works, it will allow physicists to observe in way other than just in the electromagnetic spectrum. How is that possible? Please explain to me? thx
My understanding is, the EM spectrum is used to detect things via the disruptions in it. Like...if you shine a light at something, on the otherside, there's a gap where that object sits, so you can detect that object by the interruption of the light. By the same token, radio waves or infrared or any other waves, really, bend around, go around, or deflect from an object. I'm thinking the idea is they can do the same thing with gravity waves.
But, my interest is mostly that now that they've learned to detect them, the next step is generating them. Which means grasers (gravity "lasers") and anti-grav. The biggest hurdle, other than power generation, to FTL is survival of the contents. Even at 1% of light speed, a quick turn will splatter every person in the ship against the walls. Some kind of inertial compensation is really step 1, if not step 0, to our exploration of deeper space at less than generational timelines.
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I worked on the seismic sensors being used for ground vibration compensation.
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But, my interest is mostly that now that they've learned to detect them, the next step is generating them. Which means grasers (gravity "lasers") and anti-grav. The biggest hurdle, other than power generation, to FTL is survival of the contents. Even at 1% of light speed, a quick turn will splatter every person in the ship against the walls. Some kind of inertial compensation is really step 1, if not step 0, to our exploration of deeper space at less than generational timelines.
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