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in 1987, were widely discredited. Criticisms of the study have focused on Weber's data analysis and his incomplete definitions of what strength vibration would signify a passing gravitational wave.
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Such experiments conducted by Joseph Weber were very controversial, and his positive results with the apparatus, in particular his claim to have detected gravitational waves from
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Around 1968, Weber collected what he concluded to be "good evidence" of the theorized phenomenon. However, his experiments were duplicated many times, always with a null result.
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and were designed to be set in motion by gravitational waves predicted by Weber. Because these waves were supposed to be so weak, the cylinders had to be massive and the
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Einstein: A Centenary Exhibition. Edited by the National Museum of History and Technology. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979.
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had to be very sensitive, capable of detecting a change in the cylinders' lengths by about 10 meters.
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Weber, J. (1969), "Evidence for discovery of gravitational radiation",
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Weber's first "Gravitational Wave Antenna" was on display in the
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Weber, J. (1968), "Gravitational-wave-detector events",
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detect gravitational waves
physicist
Joseph Weber
University of Maryland
aluminium
diameter
antennae
gravitational waves
resonance frequency
hertz
piezoelectric sensors
SN1987A
Smithsonian Institution
Einstein
LIGO Hanford Observatory
Eight large aluminum bars organized in an arch around a sign that says "Weber Memorial Garden" with a picture of Weber working on the detectors. The Garden can be found at the University of Maryland.
University of Maryland
University of Maryland



"A Fleeting Detection of Gravitational Waves"
doi
10.1103/PhysRevLett.25.180
"Resonant Bar Detector Dedicated at Hanford"
"Weber Garden Dedication Held March 12 - UMD Physics"
"Early History of Gravitational Wave Astronomy: The Weber Bar Antenna Development"
Bibcode
1967PhRvL..18..498W
doi

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