Gravity Probe
29.04.2019
Sven Gelbhaar
Space is vast and detecting objects as they approach can be a challenge. Perhaps
the object has a lot of radar-deflecting edges, or maybe the object has radar-
absorbing paint such as our modern-day stealth planes. Maybe aliens are on their
way to turn us all into human-burgers or worse. As we conquer more and more
terrority — to include areas in space — we will need more accurate and fool-
proof ways of detecting incoming objects. Luckily there’s a method that can’t
be foiled by methods currently known to Mankind.
All objects have mass and thereby all objects exert a gravitational force on their
surroundings. We do not yet know how to neutralize this impact on objects’
environs. Therefore, we should utilize this effect to detect objects, be they
hostile aliens or extinction-event-causing meteors on an approaching/converging
course with that of Earth (or anything else, for that matter).
The solution is quite simple, conceptually. One deploys ladar buoys consisting
of reflective spheres. The detector-hub is comprised of a series of lasers and
photon detectors. The buoys are scattered and positioned in such a way that the
lasers emitted from the hub are beamed off the reflective coating material of the
buoys back to the hub, to be observed by a single detector/receiver of the hub’s
detector array. Now, should there be any motion of the reflective buoy, the
laser’s light that’s being beamed at the buoy will be reflected in a different
direction than it was originally, thereby being detected by another photon
detector on the hub in the opposite side from where the probe/buoy is now moving.
Conceivably one could use at least two hubs to get a stereoscopic view of the
buoy in question, thereby allowing for Z-axis movement (of the individual buoys).
As stated this method is fool-proof. One should place the ladar buoys as far
away from the hubs as possible in every direction. It is of course imperative
that the buoys start off as stationary (from the hub’s perspective or inertial
frame) as possible, or else to take their relative motion into account. Using
this technology there is nothing within a good distance from us (or the hubs,
rather) that would be invisible to us.