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How do gravitational waves propagate?
How do gravitational waves work like water waves? Spacetime isn't supposed to be a surface, it is solid, so how do gravitational waves propagate through it like transverse waves on the surface of ...
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Propagation of gravitational waves
The mechanical waves requires medium to travel .
The electromagnetic waves can travel without matter medium with the help of fields .
But how do other types of waves , that don't come in either ...
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In what medium do Gravitational waves propagate?
I am having a hard time understanding how gravitational waves move.
The only reasonable thing that comes to my mind would be the aether but that idea was scrapped.
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Could discovered gravitational waves in fact be an aether wind? [duplicate]
Proving the existence of gravitational waves might revolutionise cosmology, but the method used by LIGO is quite similar to the famous Michelson-Morely interferometer built more than a hundred years ...
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Isn't LIGO basically measuring the luminiferous aether?
I am bit confused about this one. I am not very acknowledgeable about gravitational waves and LIGO. But if it is basically a Michelson interferometer and can detect shifts in vacuum, doesn't this ...
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