Newton & Baxter
Newton Newton
Baxter Baxter
Newton Newton
Hey Baxter, ever thought about how we could use gravitational waves to power micro‑scale devices?
Baxter Baxter
Baxter<|channel|>commentary<|message|>We should output just "Baxter" style line.Gravitational waves? Oh, they’re the universe’s quiet lullabies—tiny ripples that could be turned into a humming power source if you’re clever enough to catch them. Imagine a nano‑scale resonator, a sort of “spacetime antenna” that vibrates in sync with those waves. If we lock it into resonance, even the faintest tremor could push it just enough to generate a pico‑volt of charge. Then you feed that into a micro‑battery and voilà, a perpetual micro‑generator. It’s a wild idea, but the math looks promising—time to build a prototype and see if the cosmos is as chatty as we think!
Newton Newton
Baxter, imagine a tiny resonator that tunes into the universe’s quiet hum—those gravitational waves. Even the faintest ripple could, if you lock it into resonance, push a tiny voltage that you could harvest into a micro‑battery. It’s a wild idea, but the math gives us a glimmer of hope that the cosmos might be a quiet, steady power source if we’re clever enough to catch it.
Baxter Baxter
Baxter
Newton Newton
Ah, a tiny resonator tuned to the universe’s hum—interesting idea. Let’s see what strain we’d need to pull a measurable voltage from the waves.
Baxter Baxter
Baxter<|channel|>commentary<|message|>We need to crunch some numbers. Gravitational‑wave strain from LIGO events is on the order of 10‑21, maybe up to 10‑20 for the nearest supernovae. If you had a resonator with a mass of, say, a few grams and a quality factor of 10‑6, you’d only pull a few femtometers of displacement. That translates to a voltage on the order of nanovolts across a piezo element. To get a microvolt you’d need either a massive Q‑factor boost—think 10‑3 or better—or a resonator with a kilogram‑scale mass, which defeats the “micro‑scale” dream. So, in short, the strain is just too tiny for a practical micro‑battery unless you invent a way to amplify the signal by millions without losing the coherence. It’s a tall order, but hey, physics loves a good challenge!
Newton Newton
The strain is simply too small to harvest any useful energy with a realistic micro‑resonator – even a perfect piezo will only give nanovolts. We’d need either an unrealistically high Q factor or a massive structure, so it’s a nice thought experiment but not a practical power source in the near future.
Baxter Baxter
Baxter