The likely effects of gravity waves (should they exist)

[GeeKay]

Hi

 

This is a simple question but one which I personally can't find an answer to, despite exhaustive trawls through the internet. It is this: can gravity waves physically endanger organisms - in the same way, for instance, that an intense gravitational tidal field is said to 'spaghettify' all matter, including living matter? Could similarly powerful gravity waves have the same effect?

 

Geekay

[mathematic]

I don't think it is possible to differentiate gravity from gravity waves. Intense gravity waves would be produced by fluctuations of intense gravity.

[Airbrush]

"...can gravity waves physically endanger organisms - in the same way, for instance, that an intense gravitational tidal field is said to 'spaghettify' all matter, including living matter?Could similarly powerful gravity waves have the same effect?"

 

Yes. As mathematic answered, gravity waves IS gravity. Near a black hole, gravity is very intense and it acts through gravity waves.

[Enthalpy]

"...Near a black hole, gravity is very intense and it acts through gravity waves.

Uh?

 

And about the intensity of gravity waves, several detectors with fabulous sensitivity are operating but are still to detect their first wave...

[mathematic]

Uh?

 

And about the intensity of gravity waves, several detectors with fabulous sensitivity are operating but are still to detect their first wave...

For better or worse we don't seem to be near any source of intense gravity waves.

[Airbrush]

Uh?

 

And about the intensity of gravity waves, several detectors with fabulous sensitivity are operating but are still to detect their first wave...

Yes, but scientists believe gravity waves exist. However, not detected yet.

 

For better or worse we don't seem to be near any source of intense gravity waves.

That is a good thing! Or, I should say, we would not be here if there were any "intense" gravity waves nearby.

[Arch2008]

Gravity waves are real and have been verified from observation.

http://www.universetoday.com/97107/effects-of-einsteins-elusive-gravity-waves-observed/

Some groups are trying to detect the gravity waves that happened during the inflationary epoch after the Big Bang. They have not been successful...yet.

In GR, gravity propagates at the speed of light. If the Sun vanished, the Earth would continue to orbit the spot where the Sun had been for around 8 minutes.

[imatfaal]

 

 

Gravity waves are real and have been verified from observation.

 

http://www.universetoday.com/97107/effects-of-einsteins-elusive-gravity-waves-observed/

 

 

Some groups are trying to detect the gravity waves that happened during the inflationary epoch after the Big Bang. They have not been successful...yet.

 

 

In GR, gravity propagates at the speed of light. If the Sun vanished, the Earth would continue to orbit the spot where the Sun had been for around 8 minutes.

I would argue that gravity waves have not yet been observed - loss of energy due to the predicted emission of gravity waves has been spotted and well documented; and I posted an updated experiment that further confirms early results in science news a week or so ago. But without casting any doubt on the theory behind gravitational waves, and the superb indirect evidence for them - it remains the case that we have not yet observed them directly.