Jacob Shymanski
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Jul
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And no wonder that these physicists have been so pessimistic.
And that's just one example.
There's so many reasons why this would be so ridiculously difficult.
But even given those hurdles, Pravofsky still thought of a way to possibly get around them.
Scientists have relatively recently been able to observe quantum effects in large macroscopic objects.
And Pravofsky thought that he could leverage that progress that we've made and point to a way to eventually detect gravitons.
Now, the macroscopic object that I'm referring to here that's outlined in their paper, it's a type of detector.
It's called a resonator.
And this resonator can vibrate at very, very specific frequencies.
They would cool the resonator to near absolute zero.
And they do that, of course, to minimize noise and make it as sensitive as they possibly can.
So the idea is that when a gravitational wave passes by this resonator and the wave is detected by LIGO, right?
LIGO can detect these waves.
That same wave should have also had a few of its gravitons, maybe just a couple or even one.
A few of those 10 to the 36 gravitons should hopefully have been absorbed and emitted by this resonator, causing it to vibrate in a very specific way.
And that vibration can be matched
to the energy they would expect from a single graviton.
And that's the key to this new idea.
Graduate student and paper contributor Jermaine Tobar said, by observing these quantum jumps in the material, we can deduce that a graviton was absorbed.
We call it the gravitophononic effect.
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