nibot ([personal profile] nibot) wrote2009-02-08 05:19 pm

delorean time machine

Any DeLorean owners out there?

The LIGO arms are plenty long enough to get up to 88 miles per hour when driving on the access roads beside them. I propose that you drive your DeLorean down the road and we use our instrument to measure resulting perturbations of the spacetime metric.

deal?

[identity profile] brokensymmetry.livejournal.com 2009-02-08 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. Somewhat related, at the Maryland LSC meeting in December a few people at the hotel bar were talking about using LIGO to detect starships going into warp.

BTW, I heard your name mentioned on an M10 telecon I was on yesteday :)

[identity profile] hukuma.livejournal.com 2009-02-10 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
That'd be awesome, though you really should rig up a flux capacitor for full effect.

[identity profile] metamouse.livejournal.com 2009-02-14 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Write a paper on it and you'd get published in 20 journals.