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Possibly your atoms, and probably your molecules would be ripped apart by the gamma rays and other particles emitted before a shockwave hit?
by NegativeLatency 5y ago
Possibly your atoms, and probably your molecules would be ripped apart by the gamma rays and other particles emitted before a shockwave hit?
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoBefore? Gravitational waves travel at the speed of light too... (Or are you saying that the gamma rays are emitted earlier in the merger process than the gravitational waves?)
- goldenkey 5y agoA better way to think of the speed of light is as the stiffness of spacetime. This allows for you to intuit what warping effects do to the trajectory of light and gravity.