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I've been trying to get my head around relativity etc and struggling :-(
However there's one thing that I can't find much information about at an interested-layman level - gravitational waves.
They're described as having a frequency etc (being waves) and traveling at light speed. But if they have a frequency then presumably they can have varying frequencies. What would this mean for a gravity wave? Would it have a different amount of energy? Exert a different amount of pull? Could red shift alter the effect of gravity? What about amplitude - is that fixed? Could gravitational waves interfere with each other?
Or am I taking the whole 'wave' thing too literally?
Apologies for adding to all the noob questions here, but it's got me stumped!
Thanks!
However there's one thing that I can't find much information about at an interested-layman level - gravitational waves.
They're described as having a frequency etc (being waves) and traveling at light speed. But if they have a frequency then presumably they can have varying frequencies. What would this mean for a gravity wave? Would it have a different amount of energy? Exert a different amount of pull? Could red shift alter the effect of gravity? What about amplitude - is that fixed? Could gravitational waves interfere with each other?
Or am I taking the whole 'wave' thing too literally?
Apologies for adding to all the noob questions here, but it's got me stumped!
Thanks!