To get a better understanding of what LIGO is observing, does every massive object create a gravitational wave as it moves? Do gravitational waves act similarly as to how moving a charged particle creates magnetic flux? Do we know from LIGO if gravitational waves propagate at exactly the speed of light?
with just 2 "ears" I'd expect to be only able to determine a circle, but here is the picture they released: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/.a/6a00d8341bf7f753ef01b8d19e59ad...
Do i see a warped circle, or the bottom part of one? In the latter case I wonder how they found out.
Are the L-shape sensors capable of seeing some direction depending on which way the phases shift first/last?
If you'd build one of the sensors in reverse you'd see a reversed signal, no (and in between other amplitudes)?
Given that they will have optimized the orientations of both stations this is probably how it worked and I'm seeing just part of a circle, right?
That one lonely blob might be an unlikely mirrored version?
I know this is speculative, but do you think it is possible and/or plausible that measurement precision could be improved to the point where we generate gravity waves to transmit data much as we do with EM waves?
I saw somewhere that you adjusted for cosmological redshift.
Did you also adjust for gravitational redshift as the gravity wave left the gravity well of the black holes?
What about time dilation of the wave signal caused by gravity and orbital velocity?
I would guess there is not sufficient resolution. And maybe it's beyond what's possible. But, thinking of additional avenues for measurement, and something that might be extant or require less build-out.
And now, there would be something against which to compare anomalies, were they to be measurable.
More like once in 200'000 years, actually.