techone... are you Greg Hodowanec?
I'm quite sure there's going to be some interesting responses here, but I just have basically the same question as Cr0sh, could you point us to some outside material that hasn't been authored by Mr. Hodowanec?
What I see is an amplifier which will in effect amplify noise.. fair enough. I'm having problems with your contention that capacitance noise is caused by Gravitational Waves, when there are so many other very reasonable explanations that don't require modification to the foundations of modern physics.
That being said, it might indeed be interesting to see if distant detectors of this type would demonstrate any correlation of any type, and if so, what exactly is being "measured". In some ways this reminds me of "meters" that measure everything under the sun except what they purport... like the "Ghost EMF Field Detectors" of ghost hunters.
Can we see some peer-reviewed (not letters to magazines, etc) material regarding the Capacitor Noise as Gravitation Detector? I really do like the idea of "citizen scientists" deploying cheap sensor networks as a method of large-scale data collection... but WHAT is being measured, if anything at all, need to be established first. As far as I have been able to ascertain, the nature of capacitance charging as you suggest doesn't have a lot of support from mainstream physics.. and there's usually a good reason for that. Chemistry and Physics provide perfectly testable explanations for the charge you are seeing.. you've just chosen to call it a Gravity Wave Detector... but I could with the same validity claim it was measuring the Weight of the Phlogiston Cloud we are in, or the "Holiness Field" created by proximity to our Mutant Star Goat overlords.
It would be interesting to see large-scale "detection" being able to be weeded out of noise data-- but it would be much more likely that some type of electromagnetic radiation is responsible for the charge in capacitance, rather than essentially "creating" energy by virtue of flexing spacetime. Your supposed charging would be occuring within and between all materials, in equal measure, resulting in two unresolvable problems.. the first is that since everything would be affected equally, your capacitor no more than your left thumb, there's no difference to measure. There's nothing special about the matter in a capacitor, any field that can create a potential electron difference (even stray radio waves, the leads acting as an antenna) will charge the capacitor, and that's what's happening. Even if it did detect as you suggest, the OTHER random noise of a million billion stars, power lines, and lightning storms would be extremely difficult to filter out-- "local" events must be screened, and by "local", I mean the Milky Way; since this supposed infinite propagation takes place in such a short time, an earth-scale detector isn't big enough. Tell me, what's the wavelength of your wave? Is your capacitor a quarter wave or half wave antenna, receiving this signal? It's creating a electrical charge in the capacitor, so the overall signal received must be nonzero in nature, otherwise voltages cancel out. Second is that you suggest a continuous and varying energy input into the universe with no consequences in terms of the gravitational and energy constraints you refer to, adding infinite energy to all spacetime. Cosmic X-rays alone is a much more reasonable explanation. Though a large scale xray detector would be neat, it certainly couldn't be called a gravity detector just because we want to call it one..
I'm still stuck on a wave of energy propagating infinite distances in a finite time. EPR paradox comes to mind.. but collapse of probability into a finite set of states is one thing-- creation of electric potential is entirely another. I've read a bit of the writing, and it seems that the single most salient fact -the source of the charge- is based upon a passionate belief rather than testable and repeatable science. Even at the most basic, please explain how this Gravity Wave has infinite wavelength yet produces a finite scalar electrical field that the capacitor is being charged by. There has to be a potential difference at any distance, so the bottom line is that requires infinite energy.
I've no doubt the device kicks out all kinds of weird "signals", but simply put, even if it could detect as you suggest, there's been nothing provided to suggest that what's measured is Gravity Scalar fields and impulses, and not a million other forces and energies that abound in the universe. I'd be much more likely to believe a design that looks for Supernova based upon Xray and Gamma emissions, which could possibly actually be discernable from background via "ambient" noise elimination.. there's mechanisms by which cosmic rays might affect the circuit, a heck of a lot more possible than violation of half a dozen basic laws of physics.
