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Astronomy Picture of the Day has a nice graphic of this: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230629.html https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230629.html Spacetime is incred
by photochemsyn 3y ago
Astronomy Picture of the Day has a nice graphic of this:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230629.html https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230629.html
Spacetime is incredibly resistant to deformation, hence the tiny displacements and the need for long-baseline laser interferometry to detect these waves.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/just-how-resilient-is-spacetime/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/just-how...