In 2001, I invented a method and device designed to discover gravity waves in local space/time and incorporated it in Discovery: Volume 1 of the Darkside Trilogy.
Though the exact method detailed in Discovery is a bit different than the LIGO Lab's hardware, the experimental method used to detect today's gravity waves is identical to that described in the novel.
Coincidentally, in May of 2001, a colleague of mine sent me a link to an article describing a similar "device" they were planning to deploy in Ireland, again employing the same method detailed in the Discovery manuscript.
This is not only vindication of the research used for Discovery, but for putting in the time and effort to make stories credible, seemingly real and to prevent readers from having to suspend belief because of faulty or lazy writing.
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