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longship

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4. Note: a gravity wave is not the same as a gravitational wave.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Jan 17, 2017, 03:17 AM

Jan 2017

The former is as described in this article. The latter comes from general relativity and is strongly expressed only by large cosmic events like the collision of two black holes, or the like. In other words what is viewed here on Venus is decidedly not from gravitational waves.

Just thought that this fact would be of interest here.

Interesting article.
R&K

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