Gravitational wave detection event GW170817 rules out general relativity in favor of vector gravity?

Venue: Room 201, No. 12 Teaching Building, Yuquan Campus

Speaker:

Dr. Anatoly Svidzinsky is now a research associate professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Texas A&M University. He obtained his Ph. D of physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia in 1997 and Stanford University, USA in 2001. He conducted his post-doctoral research at Stanford University, University of Delaware and Texas A&M University from 2001-2007. Dr. Svidzinsky has a variety of broad interests including Quantum optics, Bose-Einsten condensation, Superconductivity, Chemical physics and Astrophysics. He is a Fellow of the American Optical Society (2018) and has 110 publications with citation over 3500 and H-index 32.

Abstract:

The observation of gravitational waves by the three LIGO-Virgo interferometers allows the examination of the polarization of gravitational waves. We analyze the binary neutron star event GW170817, whose source location and distance are determined precisely by concurrent electromagnetic observations. Applying a signal accumulation procedure to the LIGO-Virgo strain data, we find ratios of the signals detected by the three interferometers. We conclude that the signal ratios are inconsistent with the predictions of general relativity, but consistent with the recently proposed vector theory of gravity [1,2]. Moreover, we find that vector gravity yields a distance to the source in agreement with the astronomical observations. If our analysis [3,4] is correct, Einstein’s general theory of relativity is ruled out in favor of vector gravity and future gravitational wave detections by three or more observatories should confirm this conclusion with higher precision.