Monday, 11 December 2017

general relativity - How do the LASERs in LIGO realize that space has expanded as a gravitational wave passes by?


I read an article on LIGO, and I heard it mentioned that it is a nontrivial argument to say that the effect can be measured by interferometry. What happens to space as the wave passes? Does the light change wavelength due to the space that it is traveling through expanding? or does it keep its original wavelength according to a reference frame unaffected by the wave?




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