Paul lets just say yes you are wrong
But I'm not wrong.
Gravitational waves cause space itself to stretch in one direction and get squeezed in a perpendicular direction. In the wake of a gravitational wave, one arm of an interferometer lengthens while the other shrinks, then vice versa. The arms will change lengths in this way for as long as it takes the wave to pass.
the above description of course talks about space stretching and squeezing which isn't possible and in actuality it is
nothing more than the laser beam itself bending towards
and away from a source of gravity intensity causing the
beam itself to be longer due to its curvature and then
shorter when it returns to its normal state resulting in a difference of the travel time of the light beam from the
laser to the detection equipment.
space doesn't stretch or squeeze those ideas were formed to
pacify some previous illusion.
stacking a lie on top of a lie does not hide the first lie.
https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/LA/page/what-is-interferometerAs the length of each arm varies, the distance traveled by each laser beam also varies (farther in the longer arm, not as far in the shorter arm).
the reason why there is less distance traveled in the shorter
arm is because there is less exposure time to the gravity
fluctuations which does not allow the beam to be pulled
away as far from its normal state thus causing a curvature less than the curvature in the longer arm.
I certainly hope they are not wanting us to believe that the
arm itself (the 2.5 mile long tunnel ) is getting longer
because of the gravity fluctuations from some event over a
billion light years away...
once again you are wrong orac , why don't you just give
up trying to impress others and try to gain some measure
of intellect.
