Abstract
Gravitational wave antennas have sensitivity many orders greater than procedures for direct measurement of the geometry of spacetime.
Equations of motion are obtained as exact solutions of Einstein’s equations and the coupled Maxwell Einstein equations.
An outline is given of a quantum theory of gravitational radiation antennas.
For a long period the backgrounds observed during the 1969–1974 observations were not confirmed. Recent publications have reported backgrounds with single antennas and correlations of widely separated antennas similar to the earlier observations.
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Weber, J. (1985). Gravitational Wave Experiments. In: Mintz, S.L., Perlmutter, A. (eds) High-Energy Physics. Studies in the Natural Sciences, vol 20. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8848-7_15
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