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Gravitational waves are disturbances in a background spacetime, i.e. you linearize the Einstein equations around a given solution. The analogy is less bad as on
by hansen 8y ago
Gravitational waves are disturbances in a background spacetime,
i.e. you linearize the Einstein equations around a given solution.
The analogy is less bad as one might initially think
- v_lisivka 8y ago"Spacetime" is math, "Einstein equations" is math, so, basically, you tell us that merging black holes are making waves in math.