LIGO gravitational hunt

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stryder Offline
Quote:Advanced Ligo gravitational wave hunt is green lit
by Jonathan Amos, BBC

One of the great physics experiments of our age looks ready to begin its quest.

Scientists have held a dedication ceremony to inaugurate the Advanced Ligo facilities in the US.
This pair of widely separated laboratories will be hunting for gravitational waves.
These ripples in the fabric of space-time are predicted to result from extreme cosmic events, such as the merger of black holes and the explosive demise of giant stars.
Confirmation of the waves' existence should open up a new paradigm in astronomy.
It is one that would no longer depend on traditional light telescopes to observe and understand phenomena on the sky.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32812326
https://www.advancedligo.mit.edu/

While they are chasing for GW (Gravitation Waves) I always considered that such "waveforms" don't actually exist but are actually an effect caused by how Gravity itself is formed.  I know that assumptions can lead to all manner of faux pas situations, however I've always considered Gravitation to be down to an "Origami" effect caused by the distortion and condensing of spacetime to create mass (Similar to a Smale's Horseshoe effect (wikipedia.org)).   

The idea itself is that Gravity, Mass and Spacetime is itself interchangeable.  So it's not about waveforms being propagated but ripples in how spacetime is "folded".  (Of course I can always be completely miles out, however it's one of those potential misconceptions that will always be unless of course explored.)
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Maybe a direct detection finally, rather than the inferred ones 40 years apart in 1974 and 2014.
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