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Earth-Sun system should radiate about 200 watts of gravitational waves continuously. One 20th that should be 10 watts of permanent deformation. Bad news is 10
by VLM 5y ago
Earth-Sun system should radiate about 200 watts of gravitational waves continuously. One 20th that should be 10 watts of permanent deformation.
Bad news is 10 watts is not much, spread thru a large volume. Good news is its "easy" to measure the infra red radiation from Pioneer and Voyager space probes running less than a KW point source of energy.
I wonder if the gravity probe A and B missions would show those permanent deformations in their data.
Permanent deformation should be detected in large scale long term orbits, eventually?
- galaxyLogic 5y agoWhat does this deformation mean physically? I thought matter makes space curve. Does the deformation mean the curvature get changed?