Jul 272017
There is a brand new video on YouTube today, explaining the concept of the Solar Gravitational Telescope concept:
It really is very well done. Based in part on our paper with Slava Turyshev, it coherently explains how this concept would work and what the challenges are. Thank you, Jimiticus.
But the biggest challenge… this would be truly a generational effort. I am 54 this year. Assuming the project is greenlighted today and the spacecraft is ready for launch in ten years’ time… the earliest for useful data to be collected would be more than 40 years from now, when, unless I am exceptionally lucky with my health, I am either long dead already, or senile in my mid-90s.
I’m really happy you liked it, it was a tough one to really wrap my head around but I enjoyed learning about it and making it.