The LIGO Test
of a prediction
based on
And now, the long-awaited... "THEORY OF EVERYTHING"
by Eugene Sittampalam
From the LIGO
The acronym, LIGO,
stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, whose mission
is to observe gravitational waves of cosmic origin. LIGO will search for
gravitational waves created in the supernova collapse of stellar cores to form
neutron stars or black holes, the collisions and coalescences of neutron stars
or black holes, the wobbly rotation of neutron stars with deformed crusts and
the remnants of gravitational radiation created by the birth of the universe.
LIGO is a joint project of scientists at the California Institute of Technology
(Caltech) and the
Enjoy looking at the
LIGO web pages for LIGO Hanford, LIGO Livingston, LIGO Caltech and
For information about LIGO, contact info@ligo.caltech.edu
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COPY OF LETTER 1 OF 2 TO THE LIGO SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION -------------------
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Date: Tuesday
27 April 2004
Subject: LIGO &
Prediction of Major Earthquakes
LIGO Scientific
Collaboration
California Institute of
Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dear Learned Participants:
“LIGO will search for
gravitational waves created in supernova collapses of stellar cores...” With
all due respect, however, do you know that, in reality, it is intense neutrino
waves that mainly cause the expected physical effect in such instruments?
This letter is to kindly request of your privileged team to use the
great new instrument to also check for these waves from the closest of all
natural sources – the core of the Earth. Apart from the new physics that you
would unearth and bring to light, this earnest appeal is more toward the noble
quest to minimize death and suffering in major earthquakes. A timely program
set up in this direction could literally save thousands of human lives by early
warning hours before the devastation strikes. Even your own lives and those of
your loved ones can get spared in the next big one (now considered overdue) in
California. The cost should be relatively small for LIGO to accommodate and run
this concurrently with its other programs, but one cannot put a price on the potential
payback.
To start with, do check
your records to see if there have been any abnormally high signal or “noise”
levels during times just prior to large earthquakes that have occurred around
the globe recently, that is, since the time LIGO went into operation or
observational runs.
The strongest quakes
originate from the Earth’s fluid outer core (as per my theoretical research;
please see below). The intense electron-antineutrinos released in the process
reach us practically at the speed of light (like lightning), whereas the
tremors reach us at the speed of sound (like the thunderclap). The time delay,
of the order of hours, is ample enough to warn people in the most likely areas
of strike to take necessary precautions (vacate buildings, etc.). The time is
also sufficient to sound the alarm in stages, on the severity of the impending
danger, so as not to cause much public panic. Further, coordinating with GEO
and other gravitational-wave (and even neutrino) observatories around the world
would reduce errors in determining potential epicenter areas. And LIGO,
perhaps, could head this unique and magnanimous service to humanity against
what may be considered the worst of all natural disasters.
For a synopsis of my work,
do click on:
Unification
of Physics Part 1 of 2
and
Unification
of Physics Part 2 of 2
Today, for want of this
final perspective on the nature of things – a singular and all-embracing theory
– any observed connections between gravitational waves and neutrinos are
peremptorily dismissed by the mainstream. “If this [probability] implies
that the correlations are a real physical effect, then new physics will be
required to explain them.” [Refer: C. A. Dickson and B. F. Schutz
– Reassessment of the reported correlations between gravitational waves and
neutrinos associated with SN 1987A – Physical Review D 51, 2644–2668
(1995).] Such words from the world of peer review are common, yet
understandable; but they become detrimental to the advancement of science when
taken as basis to deny any thorough and unbiased further investigation.
Justification for my appeal
to you here is given further in the web pages, UCLA
Test and KamLAND.Test. The rest
of the website, too, would be of help in understanding this ultimate paradigm
shift waiting in the wings! I would consider it an honor if invited to make a
personal presentation of it at any of your conferences or workshops.
Thank you and best
regards,
Sincerely,
Eugene Sittampalam
– End of
letter 1 of 2 –
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LIGO SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION -------------------
To:
Advanced LIGO Participants of ACIGA, Caltech-CaRT,
Subject: Toward
the betterment of science
Date:
Dear Learned Participants,
UCLA Letter
Please be good enough to access the above for perusal. You may find the
matter of utmost importance in many fields. Most notably, lives could be saved
in major earthquakes like the one last month in
Thank you and best regards.
Sincerely,
PS:
The
sixth sense of animals gained much credibility at the
Located in the southeast of the country, Yala
shelters over 32 species of mammals, 130 avifauna and some notable reptiles.
It is home to the sloth bear, leopard, elephant, water buffalo, wild boar,
spotted deer, sambar and golden jackal. Director
Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWLC),
Sixth sense or survival instinct, Sunday
Observer [
This sixth sense in animals
is hardly a mystery. Man, too, has developed it but in the form of instruments.
Unwittingly, though, he has the most advanced ones facing the stars.
– End of
letter 2 of 2 –
R&D
What’s Cooking at the
Center of the Earth?
The controversial idea that Earth has a nuclear reactor at its core
(Discover, August 2002) may soon be put to the test. Physicists
in
the planet’s center, churning out the
heat that powers Earth’s magnetic field.
Neutrinos and their antimatter twins, antineutrinos, are
lightweight, charge-free, nearly inert particles spit out by nuclear processes.
If, as independent geophysicist J. Marvin Herndon argues, there is
a “georeactor” at Earth’s core, it would emit vast
numbers of
antineutrinos. Because they
react little with matter, antineutrinos usually zip through Earth unscathed.
But they can be detected by
a special type of apparatus: a huge
tank of liquid in which rare antineutrino collisions with atomic nuclei produce
faint but
measurable bursts of light.
Researchers at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian
Academy of Sciences in Moscow and the Russian Research
Center of the Kurchatov Institute have
presented plans for a 1,000-ton detector at the Baksan
Neutrino Observatory beneath the
Meanwhile, a team at the Kernfysisch Versneller Institute in the Netherlands advocates building
a similar antineutrino detector
below the Caribbean
simplify identifying
antineutrinos from Earth’s core. “These proposals are a good example of how
science should progress,”
says
DISCOVER Vol. 25 No. 07 |
July 2004 | Astronomy & Physics
NOAA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI
NOAA scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii went to work
within minutes of getting a seismic signal that an earthquake occurred off the
west coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia. NOAA issued a bulletin indicating no
threat of a tsunami to Hawaii, the West Coast of North America or to other
coasts in the Pacific Basin—the area served by the existing tsunami warning
system established by the Pacific rim countries and operated by NOAA in Hawaii.
NOAA scientists then began an effort to notify countries about the possibility
that a tsunami may have been triggered by the massive 9.0 undersea earthquake.
The Pacific Basin tsunami warning system did not detect a tsunami in the Indian
Ocean since there are no buoys in place there.
Full Story
Inside
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Home Page,
Top Story, 1 January 2005
With the death toll from South Asia’s tsunamis likely to exceed 50,000,
there have been calls for a system to alert
countries bordering the
casualties, though some means of
predicting quakes would be better—and that remains elusive
...Nevertheless,
more could be done to make use of the world’s existing monitoring systems: for
instance,
...scientists
detected the tremors from Sunday’s quake within minutes, but say they had no
means of alerting
those Asian countries that were about to be hit by the resulting
waves.
The Economist Global Agenda, Dec 28th 2004
“and that remains elusive”?No, friends; not anymore.“more could be done to make use of the world’s existing monitoring systems”
Yes, friends; and hope this page has given the basic rationale for that humanitarian cause.