Timeline for Do planets orbiting stars emit gravitational waves?
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| Apr 2, 2020 at 18:03 | comment | added | Nat | Bleh, it occurs to me that this is why God invented bar graphs. But I dunno if a log-scale bar-graph would necessarily be more intuitive to a general audience? | |
| Apr 2, 2020 at 17:58 | history | edited | Nat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Lightened the place-holder characters.
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| Mar 31, 2020 at 11:51 | comment | added | Nat | To note it, I was considering making the placeholder-$0\text{'s}$ light-grey. I wonder if that'd improve the presentation? | |
| Mar 31, 2020 at 11:45 | comment | added | Nat | @cmaster-reinstatemonica: Took a go at reformatting it; hopefully it'll be a lil more intuitive now. | |
| Mar 31, 2020 at 11:38 | history | edited | Nat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Attempting to make the numbers' order-of-magnitudes more apparent.
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| Mar 25, 2020 at 18:06 | comment | added | G. Smith | You should take the eccentricities of the planetary orbits into account since some of them are significant. The formula for average power radiated gravitationally by an eccentric binary is here. I believe it was originally derived by Peters and Matthews in 1963. Today it is a common homework problem for a General Relativity course. | |
| Mar 25, 2020 at 13:26 | comment | added | fraxinus | "these figures are theoretical" only in the sense they are too small to be detected with current measurement abilities. The theory is tested for much more extreme cases and generally agrees with the calculations. | |
| Mar 25, 2020 at 11:40 | history | rollback | Nat |
Rollback to Revision 1
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| Mar 25, 2020 at 11:32 | history | edited | Nat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 525 characters in body
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| Mar 25, 2020 at 10:58 | comment | added | cmaster - reinstate monica | Good job posting all the numbers for the solar system. One idea for improvement though: It's relatively hard to tell the dot in $0.276 W$ apart from the comma in $5,200W $. I would suggest giving the thousands separator a good kick and using proper unit prefixes instead: Mars: $276 mW$, Jupiter: $5.2 kW$, etc. | |
| Mar 25, 2020 at 9:08 | history | answered | Nat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |