On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 09:47:11PM -0500, Terren Suydam wrote: > Great, but what is the specific way in which mass is converted into the > energy required to produce gravitational waves? When planetary orbits > decay, kinetic energy is lost... No mass is converted.
Kinetic energy has mass! When the kinetic energy is lost, so is the system's mass. Don't be fooled by the fact that the sorts of kinetic energy we experience on a daily basis has almost immeasurably small mass into the assumption that kinetic energy has zero mass. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow [email protected] Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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.
