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Good question.HansH said:Then is it stil unclear to me how we can explain that gravitational waves occur (representing enrgy flow) when you would instantly take away a mass. so where is the energy of the gravitational wave then coming from?
Note that in non-stationary spacetimes energy is not conserved, so the answer might just be "nowhere". If you want a better answer we first need to define what the quantity that is conserved is, and despite a lot of trying nobody has managed to come up with a solution that is satisfactory to most physicists. And that's why this kind of conversation stalls - we don't know how (or even if we can) write the terms we need to be able to have it.