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In my new novel, Handwavium, renowned genius physics Professor Samuel Clements Silver has created a prototype gravitational wave radio. For plot purposes, the protagonist needs to use the signal to triangulate his location.
I know LIGO has three detectors and have seen reports of sources like black holes being locationally identified, so I'm assuming that the concept works. All the action happens on Earth, but...
I know LIGO has three detectors and have seen reports of sources like black holes being locationally identified, so I'm assuming that the concept works. All the action happens on Earth, but...
- Can you locate with two measurements? Or do you need three?
- Would the location be exact, or is there locational fuzziness based on distance between source and receiver? Or distance between readings?
Any thoughts or observations are welcomeHe took his watch off. Johnson had not even looked at it, though if he had it was doubtful that he would have sensed anything special about it. Apart from that it looked very expensive. Placed onto the adapter, induction charging started the hour hand spinning, slowly at first, and then so rapidly that it blurred. Silver listened to the hum for a moment, face averted as he half expected it to fragment like so many of its predecessors had but the watch also worked as intended. The tip of the hour hand was doped with Wittenian, an island of stability, superheavy element that was just massive enough for useful gravitational waves as it deformed spacetime rotating at speed.