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Does matter follow the curvature of space-time?
How is matter affected by the warping of space-time? Does it expand and contract, follow the curvature of space? What happens the shape/volume/density of matter when it enters a gravity well, or ...
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Mathematical relations of Gravitational waves and the Metric Tensor $T$
Ok so as we all know that Spacetime Curvature has Geometric Disturbances which are mathematically called Gravitational Waves. But the question I am asking is that why the Coordinative value of the ...
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Do mass and motion affect space-time differently?
Mass is said to create curvatures in space-time thereby creating gravity, yet technically the smallest movements, even on Earth, create gravitational waves. Are there different "types" of disturbances ...
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Could LIGO have detected R'lyeh if it existed?
In Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacific, that R'lyeh might be exist within a bubble of spacetime. (It appears to be a joke paper since some of the references are fictional, but ...
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As a gravitational wave passes by a region, do the space-time dimensions undulate and move in a wavelike fashion?
As a gravitational wave passes by a region, do the space-time dimensions undulate and move in a wavelike fashion? Does LIGO measure the movement of the space-time dimensions as a gravitational wave ...
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If spacetime is curved, how would anyone know? If anyone could tell, would that really be spacetime curving?
I never had a problem accepting that spacetime is curved as a result of matter, until I learned the LIGO experiments showed that evidently the curvature of spacetime can be measured. This, to me, is ...
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How does curved spacetime affect gravitational waves?
How differently will a LIGO detector detect a gravitational wave which came directly to it with a detector which happened to have a black hole between it and the source?
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Do gravitational waves affect light?
Gravity "bends" light, predicted with theory of relativity and subsequently observed: how does gravity and gravitational waves achieve this effect, and shouldn't this effect be present wherever there'...
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Effect of Gravitational Waves on light?
We all know about the gravitational lensing effect. From the analogy of fabric of space time used to explain this concept to laymen like me, I understand that light follows the curvature of spacetime. ...
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Are gravitational waves effected by the curvature of space time (gravitational lensing)?
I have a basic question I can't seem to find anything on (I keep hearing about how gravitational waves and gravitational lensing were both predicted by Einstein).
We all know about the gravitational ...
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How does LIGO account for curvature of Earth?
Using an earth curvature calculator, I found that at a distance of 4 km (the length of LIGO's arms), more 1.26 m is hidden by the horizon. When constructing LIGO, did they account for the curvature of ...
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