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Lunar Laser-Ranging Detection of Light-Speed Anisotropy and Gravitational Waves

General Physics 2010-02-09 v2

Abstract

The Apache Point Lunar Laser-ranging Operation (APOLLO), in NM, can detect photon bounces from retro-reflectors on the moon surface to 0.1ns timing resolution. This facility enables not only the detection of light speed anisotropy, which defines a local preferred frame of reference - only in that frame is the speed of light isotropic, but also fluctuations/turbulence (gravitational waves) in the flow of the dynamical 3-space relative to local systems/observers. So the APOLLO facility can act as an effective "gravitational wave" detector. A recently published small data set from November 5, 2007, is analysed to characterise both the average anisotropy velocity and the wave/turbulence effects. The results are consistent with some 13 previous detections, with the last and most accurate being from the spacecraft earth-flyby Doppler-shift NASA data.

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@article{arxiv.1001.2358,
  title  = {Lunar Laser-Ranging Detection of Light-Speed Anisotropy and Gravitational Waves},
  author = {Reginald T Cahill},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.2358},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

7 pages, 3 figures. Minor changes. Appendix added