LIGO or LieGo?

 

Dramatic artwork approaching that of Event Horizon, also bearing no resemblance to reality.

LIGO is the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory.

I thought this was far too informative to let slip through the cracks. This is a fairly detailed synopsis/outline of the fundamental flaws with LIGO as well as some scrutiny of the nuts and bolts processes. In my view its a must read, made freely available for distribution by the author, David Michalets, and I've included his intro text.

By David Michalets 

(More from this author HERE)

LIGO leaves a disheartening legacy for the progress of physics,

which is the science of forces, matter, and motion.

LIGO is pivotal in a story where the elite of a science latched onto a mistake and the rest followed, without questioning the path. This is simply because in a large group, the experts are always right.

Doubting them can put one's career in jeopardy.

This scenario is not limited to physics.

LIGO claimed to detect 4 non-existent entities and 1 highly improbable behavior, and to confirm 1 fundamental mistake.

LIGO is the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory.

LIGO is an international collaboration, in line with the importance of what it seeks to confirm. A few had an agenda, got funding, and on it went, so the few were responsible for keeping everyone working toward a common goal. Unfortunately, this effort started in absolutely the wrong direction (the list of 6), never having a chance to provide a result to advance any discipline of science, meaning every hour and dollar was wasted.

LIGO was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, because its dubious claims provided the very important illusion that modern physics was on a correct path.

Without some form of confirmation, doubt can arise about the current path, leading to dissension.

Without publicity proclaiming the necessary results, investing in science and research can be questioned.

The 4 nonexistent entities:

1) black hole,

2) gravitational wave,

3) neutron star,

4) space-time.

1) the LIGO-defined "inspiral" merger.

The 1 mistake is only a theory, but an important one:

Einstein's theory of relativity (both special and general).

Technically, Einstein defined space-time as only a set of 4 values

from position changes of his special, moving observer. Eventually, it became a thing, like in: "the fabric of space-time" or "a ripple in space-time" which was often used by LIGO.

I had wanted a smaller page count, but LIGO claimed to detect 97 fictitious waves, and I listed them. Rather than the reader having to look elsewhere for some details, the data are provided. It is important to explain the reasons why so many nonexistent things could be detected 97 times.

Of course, many books were written on these 6 topics, but hopefully I can explain them succinctly in under 80 pages.

...end of Davids prelude

The Evidence

The pdf file for Davids short book (its quite succinct but too long for one article) is HERE (Its less than 1MB) and by his permission can be freely copied and distributed.

 Retractions by LIGO, VIRGO, NASA etc

Here are some assorted retractions by LIGO, VIRGO, NASA etc in case he covers something they someday retract:

• Retraction in PDF
• https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019GCN.26263....1L/abstract
• LIGO/Virgo S191120aj: Retraction of GW compact binary merger candidate
• PDF
• Article
• https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/uri/NED::GWFevents/
• https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/other/GW190928c.gcn3
• https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-G1900994/public

• The Retraction of S190518bb

  Document #:

  LIGO-G1900994-v2

  Document type:

  G - Presentations (eg Graphics)
  Other Versions:

  Abstract:

  This is a short presentation at the openlvem meeting on May 23 2019. The topic is the retraction of the BNS candidate event S190518bb.

  Files in Document:

  • S190518bb Retraction Slides (G1900994_S190518bb_Retraction.pdf, 895.5 kB)

  Other Files:

  • S190518bb Retraction Slides (G1900994_S190518bb_Retraction.pptx, 1.9 MB)

  Publications & Presentations Status:

  Accepted on 2019-05-25 09:42:00 by Richard O'Shaughnessy

  Topics:

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