Minimum Time Interval: Experimental Evidence?

[George Jones]

Craig Hogen, in his paper Indeterminacy of Holographic Quantum Geometry, Phys. Rev D 78, 087501 (2008), has claimed noise seen in output of the GEO600 interferometric gravitational-wave detector is evidence for a fundamental minimum interval time.

What is the time-line for the survival of this timely result?

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081110/full/news.2008.1217.html?s=news_rss

http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0665

 

[marcus]

Craig Hogen, in his paper Indeterminacy of Holographic Quantum Geometry, Phys. Rev D 78, 087501 (2008), has claimed noise seen in output of the GEO600 interferometric gravitational-wave detector is evidence for a fundamental minimum interval time.

What is the time-line for the survival of this timely result?

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081110/full/news.2008.1217.html?s=news_rss

http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0665

You are asking us to guess the future. This is impossible, but it is still a good exercise to try to do it (a way of testing one's own grasp of the situation.)

I will risk a forecast. I expect we will not remember this paper 6 months or a year from now. I think they will tweak the GEO rig and get rid of the noise and no one will care about Hogan's paper.

I hope I understood the spirit of your question about (future?) "time-line".

 

[Chronos]

Agree with marcus. Instrument sensitivity is not quite at the 'chronon' level just yet IMO.