Ahhh, makes sense, you know, in the absurd way that anything in relativity or QM makes sense.
One more question. A mass is hurtling through space (not in orbit, to keep things simple). In the mass's frame of reference it has zero kinetic energy. It is at rest. From the perspective of a nearby planet, the mass has a certain amount of kinetic energy. Does that mean its mass changes depending on the frame of reference it is being observed from? On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 10:02 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > In relativity mass and energy are interchangeable. For example, most of > the mass of a proton is in the kinetic energy of the quarks. When a > planetary orbit decays (by radiating gravity waves) kinetic energy is lost > and this shows up as less gravitational mass for the sun/planet system. So > mass IS converted. > > Brent > > > On 2/13/2016 6:47 PM, 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. > On Feb 13, 2016 1:20 PM, "John Clark" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Terren Suydam < >> <[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >>> 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? >>> >> >> Einstein found in General Relativity a new law of nature, he said it >> takes energy to make gravitational waves and that an accelerating mass >> produces gravitational waves, just as Maxwell said a accelerating charged >> particle makes a electromagnetic wave. Normally this effect is far too >> small to be important and can be ignored, but when it's something as >> massive as a black hole and its vibrating at almost the speed of light as >> it tries to become spherical we now know that gravity waves can not be >> ignored and Einstein was right. General Relativity has passed its most >> stringent test yet and passed it with flying colors! >> >> 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.
