Gravity interferometer system

Claim 1

A gravity interferometer system comprising a light source producing a coherent collimated beam path; a pair of uniformly shaped right cylindrical reservoir cup members, said reservoir cup members positioned in a relatively level manner and separated by a fixed and predetermined distance; an interconnecting tubular member as extending from the lower side portion of one of the aforesaid cup members and adjoining the lower side portion of the aforesaid second cup member, said tubular member presenting an intercommunicating free passage between both of the aforesaid reservoir cup members; an equilibrium fluid medium of a quantity sufficient to substantially fill the aforesaid pair of reservoir cup members and their aforesaid interconnecting tubular member, the equilibrium fluid medium creating an essentially optically flat surface within the said cup members; two eliptically shaped flat front surface reflector members positioned equidistantly and centrally above the aforesaid two reservoir cup members, and each of said reflectors supported at an angle of forty-five degrees with respect to the axes of the said reservoir cup members; a primary beamsplitter member positioned in said beam path such that a partial beam will be directed to each of said eliptically shaped reflectors, from which the said partial beams will be reflected downward to the top flat central portion of the aforesaid fluid medium in both of the said reservoir cups; a return of the aforesaid partial beams reflected upwardly from the top central portion of said fluid surfaces, then reflected from each of the aforesaid eliptically shaped reflectors, the two partial beams redirected back to the aforesaid primary beamsplitter; light interference development at said primary beamsplitter, as a recombined set of the aforesaid partial beams, said light interference of said recombined partial beams continuing onward from the said beamsplitter and exiting from the interferometer as signal output in a visible fringe pattern at the exit of said interferometer; a secondary beamsplitter, or a compensator, positioned in the partial beam path beyond the aforesaid primary beamsplitter from the said light source beam, said compensator equalizing the optical path length for the aforesaid set of partial beams in the light interference framing portion of the interferometer system; support members for each, respectively, of the aforesaid solid-state optical components, or, the two aforesaid eliptically shaped front surface reflector members, the aforesaid primary beamsplitter member, and the aforesaid secondary compensator beamsplitter member; a flanged base portion to each of said support members; an inner tee-shaped tubular member located coaxially and ringsealed within each of the aforesaid support members, said inner tee-shaped tubular member having its side-arm thereof protruding through side holes provided through the side of each of the said support members; end cap members fastened over the end of each of the aforesaid support members, said end caps drilled and tapped to provide through-holes spaced equidistantly in a circumferential manner about the outer surface of each of the said end cap members; fine threaded adjusting machine screws inserted into the said drilled and tapped through-holes to engage with the aforesaid inner tubular tee-shaped members of the said support members, said screws providing a fine adjustment of the positioning of the said inner tubular member; a transducer to provide sub-micrometrIc motion to the primary beamsplitter; an exit location in the output path of the aforesaid recombined partial beams, said exit location for either the visible observation of the said fringe pattern shift, over time, or for the positioning of a photosensitive detector device to electronically observe and record the same said light interference fringe pattern shift, over time; a deliberate adjustment and optical alignment of the aforesaid interferometer system to obtain one given and well defined and recorded fringe pattern - observing and recording the time of day; a shrouding member to enclosed the entire gravity interferometer system; maintenance of a relatively close ambient temperature within the confines of the aforesaid shrouding member; a monitoring of the aforesaid light interference fringe pattern shift over an extended time interval, and inclusive of the recording of said fringe pattern shift in terms of single fringes, or fractions thereof; and, correlating the results of these data to calculate the angle of the earth''s land mass tilt angle, said tilt angle''s sine, in effect, being directly proportional to the earth''s land mass tidal rise, or fall.