Reflected Gravitational Waves

Posted by kdawson on Monday March 23, 2009 @09:33PM from the could-prove-useful dept.

WSOGMM sends in an arXiv blog post about reflecting gravity waves. The speculation is that reflected gravity could go some ways toward explaining the odd readings being returned by Gravity Probe B. "In the couple of weeks since he introduced the idea that superconducting sheets can reflect gravity waves, Raymond Chiao from the University of California, Merced, has been busy with a couple of buddies working out how big this effect is... Chiao and co. ask how big the effect of a gravitational wave on a thin superconducting sheet is compared to the effect on an ordinary conducting sheet. The answer? 42 orders of magnitude bigger."

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Re:Cue the Douglas Adams references! by Linker3000 · 2009-03-23 23:42 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Likewise:
Forward deflector arrays
Tachyon beams
Crossing the streams.
. /Meh - Chuck Norris could easily beat 42 sharks with frikkin lasers!

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Re:Cue the Douglas Adams references! by RMingin · 2009-03-24 00:38 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I, for one, welcome our new lulz-killing overlords.
You must be new here.
Fixed that for you.

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Re:Cue the Douglas Adams references! by Camann · 2009-03-24 01:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

*AA lawyers are a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the rebellion comes.

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