Could LIGO Discovery Of Gravitational Waves Unlock Secrets Of Quantum Gravity?

The proposal, known as LIGO-India project (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory in India) is piloted by Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology (DST).

The two black holes are around 1.3 billion light years away and have masses equal to 29 and 36 suns resptively.

LIGO-India is proposed to be nearly an exact replica of the U.S. observatories.

These developments followed the landmark discovery last week of gravitational waves in the United States.

In collaboration with Laser Zentrum Hannover, Leoni supported the development of laser systems for the LIGO gravitational wave detectors with special optical fiber cables that transmit the pumped radiation of the laser diodes onto the crystal.

Gravitational waves can be used as a tool for probing into the deeper reaches of the universe, or even the origin of it.

This gravitational wave model has been created with the quantum gravity theory in mind, which has been predicted for decades. But now we know how to detect gravitational waves, there could be a paradigm shift in how we detect and study some of the most energetic cosmic phenomena. This is why the scientific community is so excited about this discovery-it opens up whole new frontiers of knowledge, representing humanity’s first steps into exploring the universe through the spectrum of gravitational waves spreading throughout the cosmos. Black holes have never been directly observed, but the announcement of the first detection of gravitational waves indirectly added to the evidence that black holes do actually exist. The observatories can detect a change in the length of the arms smaller than one-ten-thousandth the diameter of a proton.

“Although I am not sure which plan the decision-makers will finally choose, I think the minimum budget of 160 million yuan should not be a problem for China”, Hu said.

The National Science Foundation has paid for most of the U.S. LIGO work, including the detector that eventually will be shipped from Hanford to India, through a program jointly managed by the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “We’ve found black holes that we didn’t expect to be so massive… but just as we have discovered them we have many more questions to answer”, she says. “So while there will be certain sources of gravitational waves that we expect to see, the really exciting part is what we did not predict and what we did not expect to see”.