| Your personal background. |
I'm an senior electronics systems engineer for a Fort Worth, Texas defense contractor. I've been in this career since 1984. For one year, I attended Louisiana State University and had a close friend who worked in the low temperature lab with a Dr. Hamilton in the Physics Department. Their main objective and experiment was on the detection of gravity waves. Their detector consists of a large aluminum cylinder carefully mechanically and thermally isolated from the outside environment and held in a vacuum. The entire systej was cooled (taking several months) to only a fraction of a degree above absolute zero (Kelvin).
The system had a microwave accelerometer on each end of the cylinder. As I recall, the Air Force was funding the development of these accelerometers and they were capable of detecting motion as small as the radius of a carbon-12 atom, once the system was cooled enough to remove thermal noise. Theory being, any gravity wave passing through the cylinder would change its dimensions and therefore be detected.
I don't know what the current status of the LSU experiment is at this time. Does anyone know?
Thanks,
John
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| Your opinions about Einstein@Home |
I think that projects such as the LIGO are man's attempt to see into the eye and mind of God. I am a hard core scientific type, but I am also a Christian. I want to contribute to these types of "big science" projects as I can because they are a way to perhaps help understand the true nature of the physical universe.
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