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He is only testing the ability to warp space. The setup is extremely simple actually. All he is doing is splitting a laser, one part goes through an extremely c
by mjfl 13y ago
He is only testing the ability to warp space. The setup is extremely simple actually. All he is doing is splitting a laser, one part goes through an extremely charged toroidal capacitor and the other goes through nothing. If the path lengths of these two lasers are the same, but the interferometer reads that the lasers are out of phase, then you have possible warping of space. Most of the cost is probably in the high-precision interferometer.
- tiglionabbit 13y agoIf you notice a discrepancy, isn't it more likely that one laser was "slowed down", rather than sped up? You'd get the same effect by shining the laser through a thick pane of glass: it arrives out of phase on the other end as if it were slowed down.
- mjfl 13y agoAssuming this experiment is done in a vacuum, I've never heard of a static electric field changing the index of refraction of a vacuum.