Quite a valid observation.

Seems your more on the ball than the scientists(?) participating in LIGO. The question really becomes, is the existence of the LIGO program a matter of incompetence or fraud on a grand scale? But then, the same question should be raised with regards that other great fiasco, The Super Hadron Collider CERN. Just because you can create a transient event in an experiment, does not imply such an event has any substantial relevance in the vast mechanism that is the Universe. But to return to LIGO and your observation.

Whilst the passage of a Gravity Wave through a vacuum must distort distance, the relative velocity of light will remain constant during the passage of the Gravity Wave or the speed of light, the detecting medium in the case of LIGO, would no longer be a constant in a vacuum, thus, although the distance changes, the velocity of light is constrained to a constant and as a result, an interferometer, will never detect a shift in phase, as there is no actual change of phase due to a change in leg length of the path of one or other or both legs of a LIGO. I remember, before LIGO was ever funded, as a result of reading an article in Scientific American, promoting LIGO, I wrote to the individual leading the promotion of LIGO, advising him, there was a better way to detect a Gravity Wave and this leads to an entirely new form of telescopy. Perhaps I was remiss in not actually saying, a LIGO would never work. Some little while after this, I moved to Sri Lanka and went into a voluntary exile, to await changes in other fields of interest and was shocked to learn when I returned to Australia, little more than a year ago, LIGO had actually been funded and built.

Perhaps I should start a thread on the folly of The Super Hadron Collider CERN; although maths might predict the possibility of the Higgs Boson within the context of the Standard Model, there are other far simpler mechanisms, able to reconcile structures on the very small scale and this path leads to some remarkable outcomes. For instance, I had a little time on my hands a bit more than a year back and looked at this and it’s implications on Unified Field Theory; it would not be at all demanding to develop a Unified Field Theory, by travelling this path.

Interestingly, such a UFT doesn’t simply unite the known forces, it also incorporates dimension and goes a long way towards resolving both the mystery of Dark Matter and supports the case for String Theory. Amusingly, I tried to get the School of Physics at the University of Melbourne, interested in publishing a Paper on this, if I wrote it; they were very good at going around in circles, so I didn’t bother writing the paper. The concept is very simple and no doubt valid, but it is another thing to write a coherent paper addressing such a surprisingly broad subject.

As a high function autistic, I’m well used to visualising complex structures and systems in four or more dimensions, but it is another thing entirely, to put such complex structures and interactions, into a structured, coherent and valid form, in words. And if it wasn’t going to be published, I don’t need the notoriety and won’t waste my time on this. There are far more pressing matters at hand in the day to day life of man, for such distractive trifling’s.
NERO

Should I find myself anywhere in the vacinity of a black hole, I should be hgihly concerned to be relient upon any definition, that allowed gravity only a slight ability to alter spactime. beyond the event horizon, spacetime would be so distorted it would be entirely unpredictable and ultimately, at or even near a singualrity, must become something entirely differnet; must give some thought to this and see where it goes. Ah, not so strange after all. Hmm.
NERO