When we detect gravitational waves, it’s because they are warping space and time by a tiny amount – but this episode of Dead Planets Society is about making one that is far more powerful
You may not feel it, but at every single moment you are being ever-so-slightly stretched and squeezed by ripples in space-time. These ripples, called, are caused by the movements of massive objects like black holes, and researchers have detected them warping Earth by minuscule amounts. But what if they warped Earth by non-minuscule amounts?
In this episode of Dead Planets Society, our hosts Chelsea Whyte and Leah Crane get curious about whether we could make a gravitational wave that would be strong enough to feel – and what that might be like – or even strong enough to rip apart a planet. This means manipulating black holes because they are the densest objects in the universe, so they are the most efficient gravitational wave machines out there.
But it isn’t as easy as just putting a pair of black holes next to the planet and smashing them together, because the gravity from the black holes would destroy the planet regardless of any waves involved.
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