The Pais Patent Gravitational-Wave Bench: Chain and Spectrum

THE PAIS PATENT GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE BENCH · IN PLAIN SIGHT, CHAPTER 23
the Navy's generator patent prints 10³³ W/m² in, 10¹⁰ T, 10¹⁰ W of gravitational waves out; the book asks why LIGO does not go off the scale
the Chain runs the patent's own numbers through the patent's own equation, in both of its unit systems
each input sits beside a measured record: 45.5 T, 1,200 T, a petawatt laser's focus, the magnetars
the Spectrum puts ten gigawatts on LIGO's curve at the patent's frequency, and at 100 Hz
the bench rules on no device and no patent; the report's and the patent's sentences sit at equal size
run the chain · read the spectrum · spin the rotor · bill the bubble · open the file

Evidence

fact ⇄ what kind of claim · live

The generator patent's 10³³ W/m², 10¹⁰ T, 10¹⁰ W, 10³⁵ gravitons/s and 10⁷ Hz; the craft patent's 50,000 C/m², 2 m, 30,000 RPM, 10²⁴ W/m²; its Equation 1 and the Gertsenshtein equation as written

US 10,322,827 B2 and US 10,144,532 B2, read in full; the figures are the patents' own

REPORTED

The question on p. 290, the four patents as the book lists them, Sheehy's letter, Pais's and his critics' sentences, Coulthart's doubts and his closing question

In Plain Sight, chapter 23, pp. 288 to 302; each sentence carried as its author's

REPORTED

JSR-08-506's conclusions, its Equation (3-14) at 10⁵ gauss over 10³ cm², its 10⁻¹⁸ W ceiling and its 10³⁸ W for propulsion

JASON, October 2008, for the ODNI; printed as the report's, beside the patent's rebuttal

REPORTED

GW150914's 1.0 × 10⁻²¹ and 3.6 × 10⁴⁹ W; O1's 10⁻²³/√Hz and its 4 × 10⁻²⁵ limit; 45.5 T, 1,200 T, 1.1 × 10²³ W/cm², magnetar fields

Abbott et al. 2016 and 2017; Hahn et al. 2019; Nakamura et al. 2018; Yoon et al. 2021; Kaspi and Beloborodov 2017

MEASURED

LIGO's design curve, 5 to 5,000 Hz

LIGO-T1800044-v5, a target rather than a measurement

DESIGN

The Isaacson flux of a wave and the single-polarisation strain it gives; the rotating body's quadrupole strain and power; the Schwinger field from CODATA; great circles on a sphere

Sathyaprakash and Schutz 2009; Abbott et al. 2017's Equations (4) and (5); the constants

ESTABLISHED

The chain's arithmetic, the strain at each distance, the seconds to signal-to-noise 8, the rotor's figures, the bubble's bill, every ratio on the ladders

arithmetic on the sources' figures; nothing fitted

EXACT

Where the device stands, the emitting area, the rotor's mass and ellipticity, the source overhead, the integration time, the what-if frequency

dials, each labelled; the patents give none of them (the addresses they print are the inventor's, in St. Mary's County)

MODELLED

What you make of the patents, the report and the book's question

the bench leaves it to you

READING

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