math of wave damping

[AntonioLao]

Traditionally, the annals of science usually record successes. Failures in science, regardless how persistently done to reach a success, are all but forgotten except at the bottom of a footnote. Moreover, the names of the person(s) responsible hardly ever appear in journals, textbooks, or reports of scientific discoveries. The same would have happened to the Spanish explorer-navigator, Christopher Columbus (1446?-1506) if he had relied solely on the theory that the Earth is like a round ball and never set sail to discover the New World and brought back physical evidence of its existence.

Since 1915, Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicted the existence of gravity waves. Forty five years later, in 1960, Joseph Weber (1919-2000)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Weber started mounting experimental assaults to prove its existence. To date, no gravity waves has been agreed exists regardless of various creative efforts and ingenious interferometric equipments, time, and money of many research institutes. Today, the physical evidence of gravity waves is considered one of the incontrovertible proofs cosmologists needed that black hole exist. On the other hand, failures to detect gravity waves do not necessarily mean that black hole does not exist. In 1970, Steven Weinberg devoted Chapter 10 of his book, Gravitation and Cosmology: Principle and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity discussing the theory of gravitational radiation. Within its pages are found all the necessary theoretical mathematics implying the existence of gravity waves. However, what is not clearly discussed is the empirical reason why the damping coefficient of the exponential decay function of gravity wave is very large, which can be salvaged only by invoking a quantum theory of gravity or equivalently a quantum theory of the space-time continuum itself.

[austintorn@aol.com]

The proof of gravity waves is also needed to show that inflation of the universe happened, although there seems to be other evidence indicating such. But, what if two branes collided, instead. Waiting for the next WMAP.

[AntonioLao]

Waiting for the next WMAP.

Is this the weblink showing the previous WMAP? http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/