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jnorman
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i have read quite a bit about gravity waves, and even worked (as a lab tech) on an early GW experiment at LSU back in the 70s. i have become ever more convinced that the search for GWs is relatively fruitless.
the reason i feel that way is that, given any particular example of an event which would cause GWs, such as exploding star or orbiting binary neutron stars, the center of gravity will not be changed, and local GWs will be smoothed out in very short distance (astronomically speaking).
for any GW to be actually noticeable or measureable at any astronomical distance, the center of gravity of some very massive system would need to be altered significantly, and frankly i can't even think of a single example of how that might occur.
perhaps one of you could please enlighten me on the error of my thinking on this. thanks.
the reason i feel that way is that, given any particular example of an event which would cause GWs, such as exploding star or orbiting binary neutron stars, the center of gravity will not be changed, and local GWs will be smoothed out in very short distance (astronomically speaking).
for any GW to be actually noticeable or measureable at any astronomical distance, the center of gravity of some very massive system would need to be altered significantly, and frankly i can't even think of a single example of how that might occur.
perhaps one of you could please enlighten me on the error of my thinking on this. thanks.