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I think you are overestimating the amount of power in these gravitational waves by several dozen orders of magnitude. To even detect these, we need to observe
by stouset 3y ago
I think you are overestimating the amount of power in these gravitational waves by several dozen orders of magnitude.
To even detect these, we need to observe multiple pulsars over long periods of time in order to find minute effects only visible at galactic scales due to the nanohertz frequency of these waves. In other words, spacetime is being stretched and compressed at subatomic scales on a sinusoidal wave with a period of a month or so.
It’s a bit like asking if cosmic rays from the Pinwheel Galaxy are affecting cancer rates.
- xattt 3y ago> It’s a bit like asking if cosmic rays from the Pinwheel Galaxy are affecting cancer rates. Thank you for that context!
- taeric 3y agoMakes sense. I am a bit of a drive by tourist on this; such that the only reason I asked this was the analogy of a kid pumping their feet stuck on me and messed up my assumed scale on effects.