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Gravity is Weird
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 2:19 pm
by Tunnelcat
Who says physics is boring.
Star-Shaped Gravity Waves

Re: Gravity is Weird
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 2:59 pm
by Top Gun
Purty.
Re: Gravity is Weird
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 5:33 pm
by Duper
Well, not really gravity. It's resonance harmonics. Still really cool though!
Re: Gravity is Weird
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 5:51 pm
by Tunnelcat
Well, they did say that gravity was influencing the wave interactions. They've even associating gravity waves with the formation of clear air turbulence.
http://www.livescience.com/25251-myster ... lence.html
Re: Gravity is Weird
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 1:44 pm
by Duper
lol. Tc, gravity effect just about everything on this planet that has mass.

Re: Gravity is Weird
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:44 pm
by sdfgeoff
Only just about anything?
Can you give me some examples of the exceptions?
Re: Gravity is Weird
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:10 pm
by Tunnelcat
Duper wrote:lol. Tc, gravity effect just about everything on this planet that has mass.

Yeah, but to think that gravity has
waves in it boggles the mind. I'm always thinking, incorrectly apparently, that gravity is a constant acting force, not a fluid one with variations. I was never good at physics I guess.

Re: Gravity is Weird
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 1:26 pm
by Foil
tunnelcat wrote:Yeah, but to think that gravity has waves in it boggles the mind.
I think you're confusing two things:
1.
Gravity waves, produced by a restoring gravitational force vs. a displacement (e.g. the picture above, or ocean waves).
2.
Gravitational waves, theorized relativistic ripples in spacetime (this has nothing to do with the star-patterned waves in your original post).
Re: Gravity is Weird
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 2:44 am
by Aggressor Prime
English language, why you so bad for science?
Re: Gravity is Weird
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 10:08 am
by Tunnelcat
Foil wrote:tunnelcat wrote:Yeah, but to think that gravity has waves in it boggles the mind.
I think you're confusing two things:
1.
Gravity waves, produced by a restoring gravitational force vs. a displacement (e.g. the picture above, or ocean waves).
2.
Gravitational waves, theorized relativistic ripples in spacetime (this has nothing to do with the star-patterned waves in your original post).
That's what I was getting confused about. I guess I had some concept of rippling gravity waves going through the substance that caused those wave formations. Now it makes more sense.

Re: Gravity is Weird
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 2:30 pm
by Tunnelcat
Oooh, more gravity wave pictures, in Venus' atmosphere.
http://news.yahoo.com/weird-39-gravity- ... 42179.html
Re: Gravity is Weird
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 11:56 pm
by Duper
Neat!
Here's a report about
solar wind-produced water.
A bit heady, but interesting.
Re: Gravity is Weird
Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 6:52 am
by flip
They say the Tsunami in Japan had the same effect on our atmosphere. I think the only similarity would be on a quantum scale. Just a moving of particles.
https://student.societyforscience.org/a ... traced-sky
Re: Gravity is Weird
Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 8:03 am
by flip
“There is no escape from a black hole in classical theory,” Hawking told Nature. Quantum theory, however, “enables energy and information to escape from a black hole.” A full explanation of the process, the physicist admits, would require a theory that successfully merges gravity with the other fundamental forces of nature. But that's a goal that has eluded physicists for nearly a century. “The correct treatment,” Hawking says, “remains a mystery.”
I like this because I think so too.