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| Jun 18, 2017 at 1:37 | history | edited | J. Murray | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Corrected reference to kinetic energy
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| Jun 18, 2017 at 1:37 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | Yes, that is a good point. | |
| Jun 18, 2017 at 1:36 | comment | added | J. Murray | @dmckee I suppose I phrased that answer rather poorly, but the point that I was trying to make was that the radiation of gravitational waves is not a conversion of "matter to energy" a la the annihilation of particles and antiparticles, and is much more akin to the radiation of EM waves from accelerating charges. My comment regarding kinetic energy should have included gravitational potential energy as well - edited. | |
| Jun 18, 2017 at 1:04 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | Uhm. The merged system has less mass than the sum of the masses of the two initial bodies, and the energy comes ultimately from the gravitational interaction. Certainly part of it is converted to kinetic energy as they spiral in, but you can think of that as a viral effect. | |
| Jun 17, 2017 at 23:06 | history | answered | J. Murray | CC BY-SA 3.0 |