Re: Incredibly efficient! was Re: [TML] L-Hyd not necessary for jumping & misc.... shadow@xxxxxx 25 May 2016 05:36 UTC
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". -- Leonard Erickson (aka shadow) shadow at shadowgard dot com