
Originally Posted by
Old Geezer

Originally Posted by
Dr. C. Michael Turner
Actually there is indirect evidence so far...... as previously discussed.
Not that I can recall. Please refresh my memory about where you have presented any evidence at all - direct or otherwise - of your idea. All I remember is a large amount of nebulous "discussion" with no facts being given.
"What binary star is producing gravity waves?
You might be referring to the Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar.
The Taylor-Hulse Binary Pulsar has the following basic orbital elements:
Distance............................5 kiloparsecs
Orbital Velocity.................. 300 kilometers per second
Total mass ( M1+M2 )............ 2.8278 solar masses
Periastron Advance.............. 4.2261 degrees per year
Orbital Period.................. 27906.98161 seconds
Eccentricity.................... 0.617139
Pulse Period.................... 0.05902999527 seconds
Pulse Period change............. 0.000000000000000008628 seconds per second
The periastron advance should be compared to that of Mercury which is 42 arcseconds per century! The orbital eccentricity and period of the system imply a binary system which is emitting gravitational radiation. The increase in the orbital period that has been detected over the last 10 years is exactly the amount predicted by Einstein's general relativity as a result of the loss of energy due to gravitational radiation. This system is the widely acknowledged as the proof that gravitational radiation exists in nature, and serves as yet another test of Einstein's theory, upon which Big Bang cosmology and the existence of Black Holes now rests."
"GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTION
Academic staff: Professor J Hough, Dr G P Newton, Dr N A Robertson, Dr H Ward
Research and Related Staff: Mr P W McNamara (part-time), Dr M V Plissi, Dr S Rowan, Dr K D Skeldon, Dr K A Strain, Miss S M Twyford (part-time)
Research Students: Miss M M Casey, Mr D A Clubley, Mr S A McIntosh, Mr D A Palmer, Mr C Torrie
The work of this group, supported by PPARC funding, is at present concentrated on the development of detectors to search for gravitational waves from astrophysical sources. Gravitational waves - waves in the curvature of space-time - are a prediction of General Relativity. In recent years there has been considerable progress towards the detection of these waves.
Indirect confirmation of their existence has come from observations of the orbital motion of the binary pulsar PSR 1913+16, for which work Hulse and Taylor were awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics. This evidence and the recognition of its importance has undoubtedly given a boost to the efforts of physicists worldwide involved in the development and construction of gravitational wave detectors. The group in Glasgow is one of the major research groups in this field."
*Internet sources
Personal comment- from my point of view, since time and distance, specifically time dialation and lenght contraction are observable facts they are then aspects of a generated wave that makes up space itself. The Doppler effect. Then to me it is a logical deduction to see that the generated waves themselves create the force of gravity through constructive wave patterns and destructive wave patterns which has an inherient trait to travel throught the path of least interference. Applying this Hypotheisis to Hawkin's radiation and relativity and quantum theory everything has a different explaination for the same observations and it is simple with out the magic of extra dimensions, or virtual particles or strictly probabilities. The Universe again becomes slanted towards Newtonian and matter decay creating space is the Universal clock.
From my point of view, everyone else is crazy for not seeing something so simple and beautiful. One process described with three actions. Time is the process of wave generation, space is the resultant area and gravitational wave synchronization is the force. Since the entire universe seems to follow this pattern and it matches all the experimental data so far that I can find althought I do have some problems with two Quantum experiments that I haven't had time to investigate. The king has no clothes!