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REPLY I TO CORDA
CORDA: Actually, we measure exactly the rate of passage of time.
In particular, we measure the variation of the flight-time of a photon when a gravitational wave is present, in respect to
the flight-time of a photon when a gravitational wave is absent.This is performed by using interferometry.
Can you give more details of your idea on disintegrating nuclide?
LEBEL: The idea here is to measure the actual variation in the rate of passage of time as the wave passes us. Gravity is a differential in the rate of passage of time..(W.Unruh, not verbatim) so a GW would be like a traveling wave of variation in the rate of passage of time??
For this detection, I suggest radio-active nuclides which disintegration rate should fluctuate as the local rate of passage of time varies.(how much?) It would act as an impervious clock except to time itself (like the relativistic half-life extension of mesons). But because this local variation of the rate of passage of time would also affect in a proportional way the timing/detection equipment, a delay between the emission and the detection is introduced to avoid this coincidence. This is done by specifically using nuclides producing alpha or beta disintegration which particles time of flight produces the required time delay between emission & detection. This delay could be adjusted to the expected wavelength (tunable) by the distance source to detector. An actual local fluctuation in the rate of disintegration can be ascertained by coincidence detector and two sources. Now, are we better at measuring small time interval than small distances? Could we even have directionality with a proper configuration of sources and detectors?
Thanks,
Marcel,