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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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