> On May 24, 2016, at 9:20 AM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
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>> On May 23, 2016, at 7:31 PM, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net> wrote:
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>> Not at all.  Gravitational waves corresponding to highly nonlinear
>> changes in the structure of spacetime (e.g. opening a connection from
>> jumpspace) should be expected to be astronomically greater in
>> magnitude than everything else.
>
> Why? I may be visualizing this completely wrong, but the analogy I’m thinking is a rock placed (not thrown) halfway into a pond. That sets up a ripple as displaced water pushes out. if the rock is moved, qualitatively different but quantitatively equal displacement happens.  Black holes colliding are like shooting the rock into the pond from orbit.

I’d mention that ‘rock in a pond’ is the same analogy that LIGO’s site uses…

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
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