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To: ETL

Is that the Washington state site?

There is also one in Louisiana.

Signals found by both sites indicate that gravity waves travel at the speed of light.


15 posted on 02/17/2019 9:55:30 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: TexasGator
Signals found by both sites indicate that gravity waves travel at the speed of light.

Not exactly. The hypothesis that gravity waves travel at the speed of light is used to calculate the direction of arrival, or rather the cone of arrival. The difference in the time of arrival is given by:

dt = D x cos(theta)/c

theta = acos( dt x c /D)

where:

dt is the difference in time of arrival
D is the distance between the two stations
c is the speed of light
theta is the angle of arrival off the line joining the two stations.

The time of arrival constrains the source to lie on the surface of a cone, whose "cone half angle" is equal to theta. If dt x c / D is greater than 1.0, then, either the signal received at the two stations is not from the same source, or gravity waves are slower than the speed of light. If dt x c = D then the source lies along the line joining the two stations, if dt = 0, perpendicular to it.
26 posted on 02/18/2019 6:34:59 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Schumer delenda est.)
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