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| Jun 18, 2017 at 0:06 | comment | added | Selene Routley | @SamCottle Moreover, "matter" changes the propagation geometry of g waves, so it certainly does interact with matter. But I sense that you need the simple insight of Feynman's "sticky bead" argument. This shows the other half of the interaction. | |
| Jun 17, 2017 at 23:04 | history | edited | JamalS | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 17, 2017 at 23:03 | comment | added | JamalS | @SamCottle If you think of a gravitational wave as a graviton, in the same way we think of light as photons, then you could argue they do at least interact with matter, since one can couple the Einstein-Hilbert action to other fields, with interaction terms. | |
| Jun 17, 2017 at 23:02 | comment | added | Alfred Centauri | @SamCottle, see the comment I just made to your post. Black holes are not matter AFAIK | |
| Jun 17, 2017 at 23:01 | history | edited | JamalS | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 17, 2017 at 22:55 | comment | added | Sam Cottle | But don't they physically displace matter anyway? I mean, they make the arms at LIGO elongate and cause the interference pattern. I was thinking that if they're 'made' of anything they'd be made of some strange form of matter i.e. whatever black holes are made of. Could you expand? | |
| Jun 17, 2017 at 22:50 | history | answered | JamalS | CC BY-SA 3.0 |