# Do photons generate gravitational waves since they affect with their energy the stress tensor? [duplicate]

The gravitational waves are fact. They are produced in a way predicted 100 years before by Einstein. Anything with energy affecting stress tensor of space time produces them. What does it happen with moving photon losing its energy in a way creating gravitational waves? Eventually it will dissapear. So finally when all matter decays and becomes in form of energy respectivly photons and they decay becoming gravitational waves in the end we will finish with vibrating spacetime? Is that the case?

• One needs at least quadrupoles to create G-waves, I suspect that a photon moving without any bending is not one. – Your Majesty Feb 28 '16 at 17:18
• What is photon than ? Monopole ? What does it mean moving without any bending – Коцето Райчев Feb 28 '16 at 19:50
• Interesting. While gravitational waves require a quadropole, any disturbance will cause some effect. Since Gravity is non linear that means some energy should be dissipated. A very tiny amount! – Tom Andersen Mar 5 '16 at 1:51
• I dont know for sure but its a hyoothese. Non linear .what is the consequence from non linearity. – Коцето Райчев Mar 9 '16 at 14:53
• Uniformly moving photons do not emit gravitational radiation. (Recall uniformly moving charged particles do not radiate electromagnetically--they only interact with the microwave background). The question is a canard. – Cosmas Zachos Oct 25 '16 at 22:27

However, it is right now plausible that due to a combination of the accelerating expansion of space and black hole evaporation, maybe every particle in the universe will someday be housed off into its "own pocket of spacetime," within which there are no other particles. One very interesting idea about cosmology, called Penrose's "conformal cyclic universe", says "well, maybe the only reason any particle experiences time is due to its interactions with other particles giving it an effective mass, which somehow acts as an effective clock of frequency $f = mc^2/h.$ But if particles can't interact with other particles then they might lose this mass and travel off to infinity at the speed of light. Well if every particle is massless then nothing in the universe experiences time anymore, and we can just continue the universe to $t=\infty$ because it's not like there are any interactions anymore which care." Apparently if you take this idea really seriously, you may have that the $t=\infty$ state looks a lot like a $t=0$ big-bang singularity when seen from a different perspective: so maybe there actually is a cyclic universe even with an accelerating expansion of space: but maybe the 'cycles' require looking at the universe from a "God's eye view" where you can look out past the $t=\infty$ of these coordinates that our material bodies are helplessly stuck in.