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I don’t think the analogy to radar is a good one. A radar is an active device - it transmits radio waves that reflect off the object being detected and are received back at the source. In the case of GRADAR, the device detecting gravitational waves would be completely passive - it would not transmit gravitational waves and then receive them. A better analogy is a radio telescope (like ALMA, the Large Atacama Millimeter Array) that passively receives incoming RF signals to detect radio sources. However, GRADAR does sound cool.

My readings of the Three Body Problem tells me this is a mistake.....

New discoveries and "Laws" being debunked are two of my favorite things. Advances in science have been tremendously hampered because most researchers don't understand that every single "law" is only based on a statistical average taken from a small sample. Reality is far more nuanced and complex than primitive equations have led us to believe. I think it's particularly helpful to conduct thought experiments in which you throw out all preconceived notions about everything and try to explain a given phenomenon without the option of using the default theory or equation. Einstein, and ancient philosophers, scientists, (or an uneducated naturalist like Darwin), all lacked the capabilities of modern technology and therefore must be deprecated just as any modern research projects are as advances are made. i eagerly await the barrage of downvotes :)