I am just a high school grad right now and my knowledge is quite limited, so please bare with my question – in J. Weber’s experiment, if I got it correctly, he was expecting the metallic rod to vibrate and ring when the GW pass through and distort space at the coordinates of the rod; however, why would this even be hypothesized? From what I can understand, when GW distort space, they strain the fabric of space-time itself, so technically, the coordinates of the metallic atoms in the rod never change, hence, despite the distortion of space, the metallic rod would not ring, because this is not a physical distortion of matter where the atoms in the metallic rods come close/move farther apart to collide and ring (since the distance between the individual atoms is still the same), instead the entire space-time fabric itself is being distorted, right?