If you were in one of the galaxies involved with the colliding black holes, would you be close enough to the gravitational waves to feel them on any kind of macroscopic level such as the one we inhabit?
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 4:12 PM, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Terren Suydam <terren.suy...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > ​>​ >> Thanks John, interesting. Does current theory make any predictions on how >> much energy (electro-magnetic and otherwise) actually is produced during >> ring-down, despite the inability to observe it due to the event horizon? >> > > ​No light or any other form of electromagnetic waves are produced and > that's why nobody had ever seen it and it was all just theoretical and > nobody knew if it was true, until now. Einstein predicted that when 2 black > holes of those masses and orbits merged gravitational waves with 3 solar > masses of energy would be produced in a fifth of a second, and that is > exactly what was observed. A better fit between theory and experiment would > be hard to find. Einstein was right yet again, the man was a natural born > winner. > > John K Clark > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
