Comment on The likely cheapest home-made Michelson interferometerComments−RationPhantoms8moSame physics principles used to measure gravitational waves at LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory)but just much, much smaller. Very neat!−mturmon8moMichelson interferometry is also used to measure the spatially-resolved velocity and magnetic field of the solar photosphere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Dynamics_Observatory -> Instruments−LolWolfOP8mothanks !
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Same physics principles used to measure gravitational waves at LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory)but just much, much smaller. Very neat!
Michelson interferometry is also used to measure the spatially-resolved velocity and magnetic field of the solar photosphere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Dynamics_Observatory -> Instruments
thanks !