When will the first gravitational camera be developed

[RobC]

I suppose you could say it already has been but I'm thinking for the masses and NOT the scientific community.

If you're thinking this is an odd question then read todays news about the confirmation of Einsteins prediction of Gravitational Waves.

 

[Luckless]

What exactly would a consumer gravitation camera record, and how would we be viewing it?

Then there is the issue of what you would point it at and the technical problem of how you record it. The effect on gravity that you have is kind of a candle next to the sun compared to the earth in general.

 

[ic-racer]

Michael Snow probably already made a movie about gravatational waves in 1967.

Though, if you follow string theory, everything is a wave.

 

[frank]

Worse than digital cameras. You're in the wrong forum. This is APUG.

 

[RobC]

 

[Luckless]

Actually it is kind of too early to tell at this point. Could be no less analog of a process than IR films are. I haven't taken the time to dig into things yet, but as far as I'm aware the method of detecting the waves isn't strictly speaking a digital process.

 

[mrred]

Can you still buy gravitational film?

 

[frank]

Gravity is dead.

 

[RobC]

all my film is gravitationally affected. It falls to the floor if I let go of it. And 4x5 flops around the film holders due to gravity. You just can't get away from gravity. It's serious stuff.

 

[Photo Engineer]

What about magnetic cameras. I still cannot pick up magnetic fields except indirectly.

 

[baachitraka]

May an Electromagnetic camera at first. Wait, I think we have one already and that takes silver halide films.

 

[Photo Engineer]

That is chemical and not electromagnetic.

 

[frank]

electromagnetic spectrum

 

[Photo Engineer]

Yeah, I guess because I am a chemist. But, there is an electro magnetic spectrum. There apparently is no gravito magnetic spectrum nor is there a gravito electric spectrum. That is despite what some science fiction authors try to describe. And so I would say that there will be no such device ever invented. But just in case, I won't vote!

 

[frank]

I've got one word for you: Unified theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Unified_Theory

 

[RobC]

a step on the way.

no surprise that it has been verified.

 

[NedL]

today's announcement was a step along the way... but while film is sensitive to individual photons, gravity is wildly different. The analog to a photon ( that carries electromagnetic force ) is, hypothetically, the graviton. According to that article, a perfect detector with the mass of Jupiter, put into close orbit around a neutron star, would be expected to detect one gravton every 10 years due to the low interaction with matter. So if you think your IR film with a deep IR filter is slow, you ain't seen nothing yet. Be prepared to wait billions of years to form your gravity camera picture. Now, a gravity wave camera, well, the beginnings of that are already in progress. Cool video about today's announcement and future plans is here

 

[Photo Engineer]

I've got one word for you: Unified theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Unified_Theory

This is quite true, but that does not lead to the trinary linkages that I referred to. Ned L has captured the essence in his post.

So, never is the answer until we do as he describes.

PE

 

[Photo Engineer]

Try here to see a gravitational detector and compare it to a lens.

http://qz.com/615137/does-the-disco...s-foretell-the-end-of-physics/?utm_source=YPL

 

[John Koehrer]

1) There's no such thing as gravity. The earth sucks.

2) If there's an earthquake on any planet, can it create a gravity tsunami?

 

[Gerald C Koch]

While gravity waves have been detected the hypothetical graviton has not. This may prove to be difficult as it is postulated to have no mass.

 

[Photo Engineer]

It is really called GRABBITY because it grabs you and holds on. The bigger the hand doing the holding the tighter the squeeze!

PE

 

[Fr. Mark]

Dudes, this has been done and it was an early confirmation of Einstein's work. Wait for a total eclipse, take a picture of the region around the sun and you will see gravitational lensing of objects behind the sun. You can wait till later in the year and take a picture when the sun is not in the way and compare the plates.

 

[paul ron]

im sorry, but I've been gravity challenged since birth. id rather not want one of those.

 

[Kawaiithulhu]

If there's somebody surfing on those waves, odds on that GoPro will have the camera for it.