It may be possible to use super positioned neutrons to detect gravitational waves

ORAL

Abstract

This researcher had previously put forward a theory about how trees could use capillary action to construct a Turing machine that requires no "work" to perform a calculation. To begin with, "work" requires force multiplied by distance, when Feynman wrote about work and computation, he used Pressure of a gas in a piston. In trees there's no work to move water in a capillary, but there is energy, as each molecule is ejected at the top of the water column by a photon. There's no work, because there's no acceleration, as the photoelectric effect instantaneously achieves a velocity because it's a wave. So when water is ejected from a tree's column it leaves as a wave, which is why one sees superheated steam without any temperature. The same is true of super positioned neutrons in neutron stars. Neutrons in a N star are held together by gravity and when a graviton, which is a type of photon hits the N star it only has to overcome the binding gravitational binding energy, the rest of the energy is instantly converted to kinetic energy. Like the photoelectric effect, Gravity has no force so the wave velocity of the neutron feels no force back to the N star. There's no potential well at that instant. So if there were some way to superposition Neutrons at Earth Gravity a extremely sensitive machine could be built to detect gravitons. A whole host of machines could be constructed, along the lines of the Universal Turing Machine.

*I am seeking funding to develop this idea.

Publication: Feynman Lectures on Computation

Presenters

  • Richard M Kriske

    • University of Minnesota

Authors

  • Richard M Kriske

    • University of Minnesota