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So it's like how you can easily see a small swell from a small boat but a larger swell can be almost undetectable. Is this also why we don't just get ripped ap
by lugg 7y ago
So it's like how you can easily see a small swell from a small boat but a larger swell can be almost undetectable.
Is this also why we don't just get ripped apart during one of these ripple events which are probably all around us as gravitational noise?
I wonder if this is why seemingly tiny vessels can cross large oceans just as easily as larger ones.
- MrEldritch 7y agoThe reason we don't get "ripped apart" during these ripple events is simply that spacetime is so stiff that even absolutely monstrous amounts of gravitational energy lead to only the tiniest distortions in spacetime geometry. A black-hole collision may put out more power in gravitational waves than the entire optical luminosity of the visible universe, and the result when it reaches us will result in a distortion of less than the diameter of a proton.