Sure, but John said the black holes lost 3 solar masses, which was converted into gravitational waves... how? Fusion and fission are easy examples of mass to energy conversion - so what's the specific interaction here according to theory?
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:49 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > The interaction is gravitational. The first experimental evidence for > gravitational waves was the correct derivation of the observed orbital > decay of a double star due to energy radiated as gravitational waves. > > Brent > > > On 2/12/2016 4:57 AM, Terren Suydam wrote: > > I thought the gravitational waves were generated as the black holes > rotated around one another, not (merely) as a consequence of the collision. > Also, what kinds of interactions transfer the energy/mass of the black > holes themselves into gravitational waves? I wasn't aware that any energy > was "spent" creating a gravitational wave, much less three solar-masses > worth, in this case. > > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:23 PM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Terren Suydam < >> <[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> β > β >>> As amazing as detecting the gravitational waves are, I'm actually more >>> interested in what happens when those two black holes collide... is the >>> resulting explosion entirely contained in the event horizon or is there any >>> possibility that matter/energy can escape due to the high energies involved? >>> >> >> βIt wasn't an explosion if anything it was an implosion and the results >> were not contained within the event horizon, if they were we wouldn't have >> been able to detect it. What we detected was a 36 solar mass black hole >> merging with a 29 solar mass black hole and producing a 62 solar mass black >> hole with the missing 3 solar masses being converted into energy in the >> form of gravitational waves, which is what LIGO saw. It all happened in a >> fifth of a second. If 3 solar masses had been converted to light instead of >> gravitational waves during that fifth of a second it would have been >> brighter than the rest of the universe put together. >> >> 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 [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to <[email protected]> >> [email protected]. >> 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
