Ask Them Anything: The Hunt for Gravitational Waves

[Dryson]

One of the most sensitive detectors in human history is NSF's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). Located in two separate facilities nearly a continent apart, the LIGO interferometers can detect vibrations far smaller than an attometer (1,000,000,000,000,000,000th of a meter).

http://www.space.com/28496-gravitational-wave-detector-ama.html

Einstein said that gravitational waves are created by accelerating masses that distort space time.

Would one accelerating mass create gravitational waves that distort space-time or would two accelerating masses be needed to distort space time?

Since the Big Bang create accelerating masses and gravitational waves that distorted space time and would not have been present prior to the Big Bang what type of acceleration would have been present to distort space-time?

 

[Silvercrest]

Dwight, you're posting nonsense again. Before the Big Bang there was no space. There was no time. There was no space-time. Therefore there was nothing to distort any of the above.

We keep saying this to you. You keep ignoring it and continuing to ask the same non sequitur questions. Are you just hoping someone will chime in with an answer you like, even if it has nothing to do with facts?

Good luck!

 

[Metryq]

It's a religious quest—how dark was the darkness before god said "let there be charge separation"? Was it totally dark, or only a little dark? Could the creatures of the Earth find each other in the dark before they and the Earth were created?