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Re:Gravitational waves provide dose of reality about extra d... by kakarot on Monday September 17, 2018 @02:55AM (#18003754)
The fact that the event was 130 million light years away makes me imagine this chaotic, turbulent network of gravitational waves just ripping through pockets of interstellar space...

I wonder how close you would need to be to "feel" the gravitational wave pass through you. Imagine being in the epicenter of a cluster of them.

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Re:Gravitational waves provide dose of reality about extra d... by AstralStorm on Monday September 17, 2018 @04:03AM (#18004006)
I think 0.1G of acceleration difference would be felt as center of inertia shifts from center of mass. Presumably while you're moving. Even more so if weightless.

If the wave is long enough or small amplitude enough you wouldn't feel it.

For something like the neutron star collision, it would be relatively far but not far enough to not get fried by EM radiation.

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Re:Gravitational waves provide dose of reality about extra d... by kakarot on Monday September 17, 2018 @04:45AM (#18004174)
> not far enough to not get fried by EM radiation

Aww, this is not the answer I was hoping for. :(

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Re:Gravitational waves provide dose of reality about extra d... by pps on Monday September 17, 2018 @04:44AM (#18004167)
https://stuver.blogspot.com/2012/06/q-what-would-gravitation...

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/45n0sz/how_clos...

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