Dr. Andrew W. Beckwith of Chongqing University discusses the significance of the LIGO announcement regarding the detection of gravitational waves while noting potential limitations and unanswered questions surrounding the nature of these waves and the existence of gravitons. He encourages the scientific community to remain open to alternative detection methods and emphasizes the importance of collaboration between theorists and experimentalists in the ongoing research. The document highlights that further exploration is necessary to fully understand the implications of gravitational waves and their detection beyond current capabilities.

1. Possible Ripple in LIGO MIT NSF Announcement of Gravitational
Wave "Ripples in Einsteinian Space-Time" Detection Suggested by
Astrophysicist Dr. Andrew W. Beckwith, Chongqing University
Department of Physics, Peoples Republic of China
Artist's Depiction of Gravitational Waves Induced by Merging of Galaxies Image: CORBIS
Chongqing, Peoples Republic of China 2/12/16 1238 EST, +5 GMT -The author has
viewed extensively the LIGO paper in PRD (Physical Review D) and finds that it is a
very good beginning. However several caveats are in order.
a. If or not gravity waves can be composed of Gravitons is a non-trivial matter and in
spite of Freeman Dyson's statement as to the impossibility of finding Gravitons, the
author has reviewed Dyson's arguments as to the Gertshenshtein process effect and
probability and found that these arguments most heavily fall upon more than kilometer
long interferometer geometry and the light years of propagation given in Dyson's paper.
http://publications.ias.edu/sites/default/files/poincare2012.pdf
If smaller detector geometries are invoked the probability calculations given by Dyson,
as in his IAS paper have to be reviewed, and should be.

2. b. The fact is, that there are a slew of significant discoveries as to Gravitational
astrophysics which may lie outside of the range of detection used for the black hole
situation with the black hole situation as outlined in
http://www.kurzweilai.net/we-have-detected-gravitational-waves-ligo-scientists
c. If or not gravitational waves are composed of gravitons with mass, or without mass,
will say a lot about the characteristics of relic gravitational waves.
d. In Hefei , PRC, , there is, as has been brought up by myself, Dr. Beckwith, a
functional Tokamak which has characteristics which with a GW strain value h ~ 10^-26 ,
which maybe with alternate gravitational wave detectors a way to source production of
gravitons and to determine their characteristics . I.e. if the gravitons are massive (with a
small mass) or massless (of zero mass) which will have a strong bearing upon
understanding experimental gravity from constituent foundational arguments.
The author without reservation wishes to enjoin researchers to keep an open mind as to
alternatives as to presumed massless gravitons which may be the
constituent foundation of gravity. While Freeman Dyson's arguments given as to nearly
infinite geometry and the Gertshenshtein process effect about graviton detection are
very convincing, that largely states that there is no alternative to the
interferometer approach used by LIGO.
The modus operandi should be in the face of a new field to not deny other approaches.
As an example, as the author discussed with other researchers in Rencontres De
Moriond in 2015, in a gravitational physics meeting, if the Tsar Bomb in the early
1960s, a case where Sakarov designed a 54 megaton Hydrogen bomb blast, decades
before, maybe even a Weber bar experiment could have in that configuration, detected
gravitational waves. We cannot predict precisely what the future will bring as far as new
technologies, and also what we will do in outer space explorations.
Having said that, I thank again the LIGO consortium for their heroic work in
determination of their epic find of Gravitational waves, in the face of tremendous
uncertainty and also of noise and other signal imponderables, which the LIGO team
resolved with élan and magnificent scientific rigor.
The author asks that Gravitational wave researchers keep the same principled attitude
as to how the physics community has reviewed the Higgs like Boson discovered, which
has led to theorists working closely with experimentalists for over a year. I and others
hope that this gravitational wave discovery will enjoin the same spirit of inquiry as has
been observed in Higgs like bosons, for mass generation.
Note that the advanced LIGO gravitational wave high frequency limit is about 250 Hertz
and that the actual last merger signals may well be of higher frequency. These higher
frequencies would include important black hole information and that this information
may be receivable by a gravitational wave detector admitting higher frequencies than

3. LIGO. This in itself indicates more work needs to be done, even if we stick to
interferometer methods for Gravitational Wave Astronomy.
- Andrew Beckwith, PhD Copyright 2016; Academic research use is hereby
granted by the Author - rwill9955b@gmail.com Additional contact: Myron D. Stokes,
Research Assistant - globalheavyliftholdings@ymail.com
Statement Released at 1am, EST, 11 February, 2016, in Advance of LIGO
Announcement Initially Through Linked In Group Theoretical Physics
Dr. Andrew W. Beckwith: LIGO Impending Announcement Suggesting Confirmation of
GravWaves While Commendable, May Not be as Significant as Implied
"Our Colleagues at LIGO Washington State and associated facilities are to be commended for
creating a level of excitement in the scientific community akin to the initial announcement by
C.E.R.N in 2012 as to presumed discovery of the elusive HIGGS-BOSON, the so-called "God
Particle.". And, there is no doubt in my mind that supporters of "Quantum Wave" theory, as
originally postulated by Hawking in 1988, will be most intrigued by the prospect of a potential
overlaying of this aforementioned quantizing of gravity with the anticipated identification of
GravWaves inferred by the forthcoming LIGO announcement today. I do expect them to publicly
state they are 'Closer than the world physics community has ever been to prove Einsteinian
predictions in this arena, but we're not quite there yet.' In my view, confirmation of gravitons
themselves may be the more relevant quest." - Dr. Andrew W. Beckwith, Chonqing University
Department of Physics, PRC
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http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/ligo-gravitational-wave-1.3440315
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4. Physics Department, Chongqing University, College of Physics, Chongqing University Huxi
Campus, No. 44 Daxuechen Nanlu, Shapinba District, Chongqing 401331, People’s Republic of
China