You know, I have never heard a decent definition of what energy is? I learnt in grade school was that energy was the ability to do work. Yah! Now that sounds really, scientific, not. I refined the definition, to be "matter in motion." Anyone have a better definition? "It takes energy.."
-----Original Message----- From: Terren Suydam <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Feb 13, 2016 9:47 pm Subject: Re: Gravitational Waves Detected By LIGO! 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]> 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]. 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.
