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OTTO E. RÖSSLER<br />

Does a “Fraudulent Joke” stand behind the Discovery of<br />

Gravitational Waves?<br />

Two hard reasons motivate this public question:<br />

question.<br />

First, the by now famous, almost identical pair of <strong>LIGO</strong> data<br />

from September 14, 2015 got recorded four days before the<br />

official start of measurements while the experiment was still<br />

on trial runs. During that phase, fake “trial data” of similar<br />

shapes got routinely injected at unpredictable times to remain<br />

unacknowledged for months in a row for double-blind<br />

purposes. This state of affairs likely extends to the data in<br />

Second, the data are interpreted as a length change in the 4 kilometers long detector<br />

arms, functionally enlarged by a factor of more than ten through back and forth<br />

reflections. The measured length change then is less than one ten-thousandth of the<br />

diameter of a proton – more than 24 orders of magnitude below the 4 kilometers of<br />

the instrument. This unprecedented sensitivity means also that no physical effect has<br />

ever been excluded to a higher accuracy! If the observed minute length change was<br />

real, gravity waves would be a million times weaker than originally anticipated by<br />

Joseph Weber whom I once met. Never has a tinier result been presented as a<br />

discovery.<br />

This unprecedented state of affairs makes it mandatory for the involved scientists to<br />

publish a detailed account of the up until now neglected “forensic part” of the<br />

experiment: by portraying every fake signal injected during the months and weeks<br />

and days before September 18. Only thereafter can one return to the, in this light<br />

prematurely published, claim of a gravitational wave detected.<br />

This caveat is given by an author who for eight years offers an unchallenged,<br />

meanwhile maximally simplified, published proof of global constancy of the speed<br />

of light in the vacuum. This retrieved result of the less than 32 year old Einstein rules<br />

out gravitational waves from first principles. It simultaneously confirms Einstein’s<br />

own later abandonment of gravitational waves. The marvelously crafted “ring-down<br />

effect” displayed in the <strong>LIGO</strong> data from September 14 in Physical Review Letters is<br />

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