Gravitational waves (ripples in spacetime) don't exist because spacetime doesn't exist, and spacetime doesn't exist because the speed of light is VARIABLE:
Stationary light source; moving receiver:
http://www.einstein-online.info/imag...ector_blue.gif
(Website:
http://www.einstein-online.info/spotlights/doppler.html)
The speed of the light pulses relative to the source is
c = df
where d is the distance between the pulses and f is the frequency measured by the source. The speed of the pulses relative to the receiver is
c'= df' c
where f' f is the frequency measured by the receiver.
In Einstein's schizophrenic world scientists repudiate spacetime but worship the underlying premise, Einstein's false constant-speed-of-light postulate, and LIGO's "ripples in spacetime":
Nima Arkani-Hamed (06:09): "Almost all of us believe that space-time doesn't really exist, space-time is doomed and has to be replaced..."
https://youtu.be/U47kyV4TMnE?t=369
"We've known for decades that space-time is doomed," says Arkani-Hamed. "We know it is not there in the next version of physics."
http://discovermagazine.com/2014/jan...ure-of-physics
Nobel Laureate David Gross observed, "Everyone in string theory is convinced...that spacetime is doomed. But we don't know what it's replaced by."
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26563
What scientific idea is ready for retirement? Steve Giddings: "Spacetime. Physics has always been regarded as playing out on an underlying stage of space and time. Special relativity joined these into spacetime... [...] The apparent need to retire classical spacetime as a fundamental concept is profound..."
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25477
"Rethinking Einstein: The end of space-time. [...] Horava, who is at the University of California, Berkeley, wants to rip this fabric apart and set time and space free from one another in order to come up with a unified theory that reconciles the disparate worlds of quantum mechanics and gravity - one the most pressing challenges to modern physics."
https://www.newscientist.com/article...of-space-time/
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