Figuring out past detections were false, seems like cases of trying to replicate earlier findings, i.e. doing things right.
LIGO has no way to distinguish its signature from some more mundane, local occurence.
Why not? This?:
If you detect a wave at two locations and you know its propagation speed, you can determine the direction from which the wave came, but not the distance to the thing that caused the wave.
APS journals charge two thousand dollars
Wow.
After putting effort into debunking this stuff, I do ask myself why I bother and I think that I want to demystify the pop-sci nonsense used to lure young people into physics servitude. I think they might find better things to do with their time and I’d like to help them avoid the mistakes I made.
Figuring out past detections were false, seems like cases of trying to replicate earlier findings, i.e. doing things right.
Why not? This?:
Wow.
An admirable goal.