Blog 18: Fourth Interview Questions

Content: Post 20 open-ended questions you want to ask an expert in the field concerning your senior project. The focus of your questions should be on your answer to your EQ.

1. What are the possible outcomes and benefits of the discovery of gravitational waves?
2. Why is studying the universe and black holes so important when we have a lot of problems here on Earth?
3. Using our current forms of detection, when do you predict the first real evidence of gravitational waves? Why?
4. What would it mean if gravitational waves simply do not exist? 
5. What are the implications if we could never detect gravitational waves in the future?
6. What would be the ideal interferometer to detect gravitational waves? 
7. Do you believe that LIGO could ever detect the waves? 
8. What is the most important data that an interferometer could find to prove that the waves exist?
9. What are the benefits that interferometers have that other forms of detection don't?
10. What exactly is a Pulsar Timing Array in your own words, and how does it essentially work?
11. What would happen to Pulsar Timing Arrays if in fact the gravitational waves do not affect the pulsar pulses?
12. How can we detect the perturbations from the pulsar?
13. Why are Weber Bars so unpopular currently by detection scientists?
14. Could Weber Bars ever work in situations that interferometry could not?
15. Why are some Weber Bars still used?
16. What are your predictions of the use/interaction of gravitational waves?
17. Could we be able to, in a way, "control" gravity particles if this discover is found?
18. Are we getting nearer to detection than before? Or have we barely made progress?
19. What do you think of the supposed detection by BICEP2 last year?
20. What is the best advice you can give me since I am interested in potentially pursuing this career in trying to find gravitational waves?