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If we reverse time, would gravitational waves flow backwards?

• dekhn 4y ago
  yes. it's literally like playing a movie in reverse.
  • nanidin 4y ago
    " it's literally like playing a movie in reverse" seems overly authoritative for something we haven't observed. I have seen Tenet, but it's a work of fiction. Have we observed reflected gravitational waves? In reverse-time, where would they originate from if they presumably rippled out into space and didn't collide with anything in forward-time?
    • dekhn 4y ago
      .... they would "originate" from all the locations the gravity waves spread to and converge on the source. Tenet has nothing to do with this- I'm just explaining it as it was covered in my many physics classes that covered the nature of the arrow of time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time) and how I interpret it in terms of what seems most likely/least unlikely.