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This is the basic description of LIGO’s operating principle. In actual practice the instrument is far more complex. These complexities of the instrument give rise to much higher precision and reliability with which the measurements can be made. But those complexities do not enter our discussion. All we need to carry in mind is the basic technique by which LIGO measures the movement of the mirrors. Figure 3: Location and orientation of the Hanford (H1) and Livingston (L1) detectors. Notice that determining the relative three-dimensional orientation of the two detectors must include the curvature of the Earth. The discovery of gravitational waves involved two LIGO stations that were instrument-wise identical. One is located in Hanford in the state of Washington, and the other in Livingston in Louisiana (Figure 3). The idea of having two stations 3000 km apart is to test whether a signal observed is recorded simultaneously at both stations. A gravitational wave will produce the same signal (same waveform) at the two stations. Other conceivable types of disturbances generally will not. The light travel time for the ~ 3000-km path – the straight-line distance between the two stations - is 10 ms. So, if a gravitational wave arrives in a direction parallel to the line joining the two stations, it will arrive at the second station 10 ms after it arrives at the first station. If the wave is traveling perpendicularly to the line joining the two stations, the delay time will be zero. If the wave arrives at other angles, the delay time will be between 0 ms and 10 ms. The actual delay time then can be used to estimate the angle of arrival, identifying a circle in the sky on which the source of the wave is located. With additional observational data, the location can be narrowed down. If there were a third station, the location can be pin-pointed on the sky. A third LIGO observatory is located near Pisa in Italy and is called LIGO VIRGO. After a revamp, it came online (started observing) in the second half of 2017. It contibuted to the later LIGO discoveries. 14
LIGO SCAMORAMA It is not that LIGO discoveries face skepticism the way all scientific discoveries initially do; it is not that there are differences of opinion on the scientific methods and assumptions; it is not that the data analysis techniques are debatable. All these presumable issues mask a simple truth about LIGO at its very core: The basic concept of the LIGO instrument is a sham. LIGO is nothing more than lights and mirrors in a steel chamber. There should be nothing more to discuss or debate. But since an enormous quantity of scientific and technical garbage has been put out there, pointless debates become a practical necessity. But even as we engage in such debates, we must never lose sight of the fact that LIGO has as much to do with gravitational wave on the sky as a dowsing rod has to do with water underground. The scamorama graphics are encapsulated expositions of the truth about LIGO. 15
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Page 3 and 4: CASEBOOK OF BIBHAS DE The Mystery o
Page 5 and 6: CONTENT PREFACE 7 INTRODUCTION TO L
Page 7 and 8: PREFACE As I write this, most every
Page 9 and 10: INTRODUCTION TO LIGO Laser Interfer
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Page 33 and 34: LIGO CONCLUSIONS Succinct conclusio
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Page 53 and 54: COURTROOM DRAMA Now we delve deeper
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VERITAS: So, Professor Danzmann, by
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VERITAS: Professor Adhikari, listen
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VERITAS: Mr. Adhikari, as I told yo
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MOSCATO: And based on what you have
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VERITAS: Then I will say. The answe
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COMPARATIVE FRAUDOLOGY The huge sup
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THE LIGO COMMENTARIAT Science repor
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LIGO: Neil deGrasse Tyson’s bizar
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LIGO CRITICISMS Starting on the sam
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WOLFGANG W. ENGELHARDT Open Letter
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Open Letter to The Nobel Committee
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Big data analysis of Livingston and
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Was LIGO’s Gravitational Wave Det
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TIME TO TALK ABOUT CRIMINAL FRAUD T
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WHY U.S. SHOULD PROSECUTE LIGO Dece
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