PPT-Gravitational Waves

Gravitational Waves Prediction General Relativity 1915 Gravity is not the pulling force envisioned by Kepler or Newton Space warps around massive objects Accelerating massive objects could radiate distortions like the wake of a boat. collapses. In . collaboration. . with. . Wen-Biao. Han, & Remo . Ruffini. . ICRANet. & . Physics. . Department. , . University. . of. . Rome. She-Sheng. . Xue. MG13, Stockholm, July 5. Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves as ripples of space-time moving with the speed of light. They are caused when two massive objects, for example neutron stars, are orbiting closely around each other with an incredible speed. . In 1918 Einstein published the paper ÜBER GRAVITATIONSWELLEN [1] in which, for the first time, the effect of gravitational waves was calculated, resulting in his famous “quadrupole formula” (QF). Einstein was forced to this publication due to a serious error in his 1916 paper [2], where he had developed the linear approximation (“weak- field”) scheme to solve the field equations of general relativity (GR). In analogy to electrodynamics, where accelerated charges emit electromagnetic waves, the linearized theory creates gravitational waves, popagating with the speed of light in the (background) Minkowski space-time. A major difference: Instead of a dipole moment, now a quadrupole moment is needed. Thus sources of gravitational waves are objects like a “rotating dumbbell”, e. g. realized by a binary star system. In 1916, the year after the final formulation of the field equations of general relativity, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves. He found that the linearized weak-field equations had wave solutions: transverse waves of spatial strain that travel at the speed of light, generated by time variations of the mass quadrupole moment of the source [1,2]. Einstein understood that gravitational-wave amplitudes would be remarkably small; moreover, until the Chapel Hill conference in 1957 there was significant debate about the physical reality of gravitational waves [3] Sources and detection . Ravi . kumar. . Kopparapu. Center for Gravitational-Wave Physics (CGWP) . Gravity. Einstein’s General theory of relativity :. Gravity is a manifestation of curvature of 4- dimensional (3 space + 1 time) space-time produced by matter (metric equation ? g. A Brief Timeline of the . Discovery of Gravity. Aristotle. There . is . no effect or motion without a cause. . . The element of earth was thought to be heavy by nature and therefore pulled towards the centre of the (geocentric) universe.. D.S. . Hajdukovic. GBAR Collaboration Meeting. 18. th. April 2012. Our best physics . The Standard Model of Particles and Fields. +. . General Relativity . is . considered. as insufficient to explain the observed phenomena in Astrophysics and Cosmology.. To help explain how two bodies that are not in contact can exert a force on one another (i.e. gravitational, magnetic or electrostatic) we use the concept of fields. .. Fields are spheres of influence. They are invisible and intangible; they simply demonstrate how strong a characteristic is at a certain distance.. Overview of Why and How. Dan Burbank and Tony Young. AST5022. Introduction. Background. Physics. Sources. Detectors and Detector Implications. Questions. Gravitational Waves . Speed-of-light wave propagation solution of Einstein’s Field Equations. with a Pulsar . T. iming Array. Lindley . Lentati. Cambridge University . Gravitational Waves. Fluctuations in curvature that propagate at the speed of light. Experiment . in the lab:. Using an accurate clock, record when you measure ticks. . A Consequence of the Quantum Trace Anomaly in Low Energy Gravity. . . E. . Mottola. . Los Alamos National Laboratory . . pre-print to appear April (2016) . The Search for Gravitational Waves with Advanced LIGO. Tiffany Summerscales, . Andrews University Dept. . of Physics. What are gravitational waves?. Einstein’s theory of General Relativity predicts that mass curves the fabric of . https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/system/video_items/files/4/EinsteinsMessengerLIGO.mp4?1436490806. 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. : Rainer Weiss - Barry C. . Barish. -Kip S. . Thorne. "for . decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves". NSF and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory In 1916 , Albert Einstein published the paper that predicted gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of space - time resulti