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Thank you for the link! A quote from the interview: > The wave comes to us and by the time it gets to us, because it’s billions of light years, the squeezing a
by ilyagr 9y ago
Thank you for the link! A quote from the interview:
> The wave comes to us and by the time it gets to us, because it’s billions of light years, the squeezing and stretching is much less than 500%. It’s more like a part in 10 to the 21 or 22. So that means if you have a, the whole earth for example is about 10,000 kilometers in size, and so the whole earth will be only stretching by about 100th of a micron. I don’t even know how to imagine that.
- Sharlin 9y agoYes, and LIGO itself is stretching/squeezing about a thousandth of the diameter of a proton!