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Can gravity radiate?

In electromagnetism, when a charge accelerates, it emits radiation. We know this because we can write the retarded potentials, apply $\vec E=- \nabla V-\frac{\partial \vec{A}}{\partial t}$ and $\vec B=...
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Does gravity affects electromagnetic waves? Or electromagnetism affects gravity?

I'm confused about the relationship of electromagnetism and gravity, or are they even related? It has been said the electromagnetic field produces a gravitational field, and so, there is no gravity if ...
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Is there an Abraham-Lorentz force for Gravity?

The Abraham-Lorentz force in Electromagnetism is the recoil a charge experiences as it accelerates due to own emission of radiation. The Newtonian theory of gravity is identical to that of ...
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Can my theory work for letting the swinging work?

This is my theory, will it stop after few hours? why would it stop? i have on top S to S to repel then i have N S to attract, to produce random force for the swing. Then i have large N N repel to push ...
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Strength of gravitational waves vs. electromagnetic waves

If the recent gravitational wave's energy had reached us as visible light, how bright would it have been? Stackexchange complains about the form and brevity of the question so i add something... if it ...
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Propagating higher order Hermite Gaussian modes. What are complex amplitude coefficients?

I've been tasked with writing a code (in MatLab, but I'm currently using Mathematica because I don't know MatLab %\ ...) to simulate the propagation of a Gaussian beam. I don't really know anything ...
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Do electromagnetic fields gravitate?

It's well known that electromagnetic fields contains energy but do they gravitate? When we talk about the composition of the universe it's now accepted that the 74% is dark energy, the 22% is dark ...
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