Space-Time Disturbance: What Is It?

hasanhabibul · Sep 27, 2008

what is space-time disturbance..can anyone explain it to me.

HallsofIvy · Sep 27, 2008

Where did you see that phrase? I don't recall ever having seen "space-time disturbance" but I, off the top of my head, I would think it would be something that would cause space-time not to be flat: pretty much any non-zero mass-energy.

hasanhabibul · Sep 27, 2008

i have found this line from a article ,"Gravitational waves are a disturbance in the curvature of space-time caused by the motions of matter and they propagate as a wave, traveling outward from a moving object or system of objects." and now i want to know how this disturbance occurs, in details.

atyy · Sep 27, 2008

hasanhabibul said:

i have found this line from a article ,"Gravitational waves are a disturbance in the curvature of space-time caused by the motions of matter and they propagate as a wave, traveling outward from a moving object or system of objects." and now i want to know how this disturbance occurs, in details.

From LIGO's site:
http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu/contents/overviewsci.htm

And Sean Caroll's notes, Chapter 6:
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9712019

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