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From: morehous@hplabsc.UUCP (Chuck Morehouse)
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Subject: Re: Build a Gravity-Wave Detector from Radio Shack parts
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Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 14:21:33 EST
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>                       and tell me if this is an April Fool's
> article? The author contends that monopole gravity waves exist,
> and that they cause the 1/f noise in electronic circuits. He
> contends that gravitational effects propogate instantaneously.
>                                                              
> He presents schematics for gravity wave detectors using not much
> more than op-amps and a capacitor as the detector.
> All of this sounds rather crack-pot to me, but I'm not qualified
> to understand his arguments. Would one of you please look at them?
> 
Yup, crackpot.  I suppose that he can replicate all the nice
cosmological general relativity calculations with his Radio Shack
theory?  And as for 1/f noise, does he like the use of gravity to
produce the 1/f frequence of the sound of falling rain?  Also his
Radio Shack gravity wave detector might do better with a little
more mass.  And perhaps it could do better at cryogenic temperatures 
to reduce thermal noise.