Such experiments conducted by Joseph Weber were very controversial, and his positive results with the apparatus, in particular his claim to have detected gravitational waves from SN1987A in 1987, were widely discredited.
Experimenty prováděné Josephem Weberem byly velmi kontroverzní a jeho pozitivní výsledky, zejména tvrzení, že zaznamenal gravitační vlny z exploze SN1987A v roce 1987, byly široce zdiskreditovány.