{"id":120721,"date":"2021-03-20T08:12:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T15:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/tiny-gravitational-wave-detector-could-search-anywhere-in-the-sky"},"modified":"2021-03-20T08:12:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T15:12:19","slug":"tiny-gravitational-wave-detector-could-search-anywhere-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/tiny-gravitational-wave-detector-could-search-anywhere-in-the-sky","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Gravitational-Wave Detector Could Search Anywhere in the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-gravitational-wave-detector-could-search-anywhere-in-the-sky.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest challenges will be to create superpositions of diamonds that can remain stable over distances of a meter. More than four years ago researchers at Stanford University managed to separate a superposition consisting of 10000 atoms by about half a meter\u2014the current record. \u201cBut we\u2019re talking about doing it with diamonds that would have a billion or 10 billion atoms, and that is way more difficult,\u201d Mazumdar says.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the other technologies needed for the device\u2014high vacuums, ultralow temperatures, precisely controlled magnetic fields\u2014have all been achieved separately by various groups. But bringing them together will not be easy. \u201cJust because you can juggle and ride a bike doesn\u2019t mean you can do both at once,\u201d Morley says.<\/p>\n<p>If the device is ever built, it could transform gravitational-wave astronomy. The world\u2019s current gravitational-wave detectors are all firmly anchored to the ground. \u201cThe only orientation LIGO can have is due to Earth\u2019s rotation,\u201d Bose says. A small detector such as MIMAC, on the other hand, could be pointed at any direction in the sky. And any physics lab in the world could house it. \u201cThe challenge is to get one of them working,\u201d Bose says. \u201cIf one of them works, it would be very easy to make several more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest challenges will be to create superpositions of diamonds that can remain stable over distances of a meter. More than four years ago researchers at Stanford University managed to separate a superposition consisting of 10000 atoms by about half a meter\u2014the current record. \u201cBut we\u2019re talking about doing it with diamonds that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}