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by Dan Ahrens
Back in the mid 80's a scientist by the name of Gregory Hodowanec developed a simple curcuit designed to record Monopole gravity waves. These gravity waves have been known for many years but were always refered to as background "noise". More recently these are refered to as Microwave Background Radiation or (MBR) These signals can be seen and heard in low frequency electronic curcuits. Many scientists believe that to be a still eminating signal of the "big bang" that created the universe.
There are many sources of monopole gravity waves such as astrophysical phenomena, supernovas and novas, as well as earthly events like earthquakes, core movements, etc. This source of cosmic and earthly events cause delectable temporary variations in the amount of gravitationa radiation present in the universe.
I will not go into the details of the gravity wave device here since it can be found by searching the internet for "Gregory Hodowanec" or "Gravity Waves", and you can download schematics from many of these sites. If you have a little basic knowledge of electronics and are pretty good with a soldering iron you can put one together in a few hours. The curcuitry is not critical but you should practice safe soldering techniques.
I will tell you I was a little skeptical of this device until I built one. It only takes a few spare electronic parts laying around or go to your local electronic store and pick them up. It does give some very unusual effects.
The device gives an output voltage that is proportional to the product of the input current. Linearity is assured because the non-DC-connected capacitor maintains the op-amp's input terminals at virtual ground. Which means there should be no voltage in the sensing capacitor at all. But there is....
The detector's output can be connected to an audio amplifier, or an oscilloscope to "hear" or see the output frequency. By listening to the output connected to a good amplifier you can hear not only normal background "noise" but also many other sounds embedded in the hiss. It is almost a musical effect as you listen to it. If you turn up your speakers you will hear a small sample wave file that was made by connecting the device to an audio amplifier. You can refresh this page to hear it again.
It is interesting to consider these waves are traveling in Planck time. Planck time is the time it would take a photon travelling at the speed of light to travel the distance equal to Planck length or about 1.6 x 10-35 m or aboout 10-20 times the size of a proton. This is the "quantum of time" or the smallest mesurement of time that would have any meaning...or equal to about 10-43 seconds (as close to instant as you can get). Putting this in terms of physics as we come to understand it the universe came into existance when it already had an age of 10-43 seconds.
The visual indications of supernovas and novas will not be seen for thousands of years here on earth. At present we are carefully crowded around our huge multi billion dollar radio telescopes listening for signals traveling at the speed of light/radio waves waiting to hear a signal from thousands of years in the past. When we could be focusing on the idea that maybe we could listen to the universe in "real time" with $5.00 worth of electronic parts and a cheap stereo set connected to it.