On 24 May 2016 at 16:20, Bruce  Johnson wrote:

> > On May 23, 2016, at 7:31 PM, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net> wrote:
> >
> > 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.

That's the thing. How big a wave you get depends on how fast that
spot in the pond goes from "no rock present" to "all of rock
present".

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