Timeline for Accelerating masses lose energy?
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| Aug 17, 2014 at 0:13 | comment | added | user4552 | It's not really acceleration $d^2x/dt^2$ that matters, it's $d^3x/dt^3$. A simple example is two sheets of mass falling toward one another; they give zero radiation. Another way of putting it is that you need an oscillating mass quadrupole. (You can't have a mass dipole.) | |
| Aug 16, 2014 at 20:01 | answer | added | Per Arve | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 16, 2014 at 19:10 | history | edited | Brandon Enright |
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| Aug 16, 2014 at 19:10 | comment | added | Brandon Enright | Yes. Gravity waves. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave | |
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| Aug 16, 2014 at 18:57 | history | asked | roymend | CC BY-SA 3.0 |