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The chirp

What if space itself could carry a signal?

What if space itself could carry a signal? Hear the translated chirp. Then hear ordinary air at two hundred twenty hertz. Same kind of number: hertz. Not the same phenomenon.

The playable chirp is a translation. The wave itself was spacetime, not air. Arm motion is exaggerated.

Same kind of number: hertz. Not the same phenomenon. This chirp is a teaching synthesis, not the archived LIGO file.

  1. Source

    Merging black holes

  2. Medium

    Spacetime

  3. Signal

    Gravitational wave

  4. Detector

    Interferometer

  5. Measurement

    Strain in arm length

  6. Meaning

    A collision happened far away