The Roland De Witte 1991 Detection of Absolute Motion and Gravitational Waves
Abstract
In 1991 Roland De Witte carried out an experiment in Brussels in which variations in the one-way speed of RF waves through a coaxial cable were recorded over 178 days. The data from this experiment shows that De Witte had detected absolute motion of the earth through space, as had six earlier experiments, beginning with the Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887. His results are in excellent agreement with the extensive data from the Miller 1925/26 detection of absolute motion using a gas-mode Michelson interferometer atop Mt.Wilson, California. The De Witte data reveals turbulence in the flow which amounted to the detection of gravitational waves. Similar effects were also seen by Miller, and by Torr and Kolen in their coaxial cable experiment. Here we bring together what is known about the De Witte experiment.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- August 2006
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- arXiv:
- arXiv:physics/0608205
- Bibcode:
- 2006physics...8205C
- Keywords:
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- Physics - General Physics
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, 5 figures