Steven,
thank you for the reply..
From it I gather that in the interaction between mass and gravitational wave, no energy is absorbed (unlike in case of EM waves)?
I would expect something like tidal effects due to gravitational field gradients that propagate through space/time.
Was that way of thinking in the core of Weber's idea (GW prompting the metal cilinder to vibrate at mechanical resonant frequency and picking those vibrations with piesoelectric sensors)?
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Originally Posted by sjastro
Gravitational waves unlike electromagnetic waves hardly interact with matter.
Gravitational waves act like a mass spring damper system where the amplitude and energy decay over time.
By the time GW150914 reached us only a minute amount of the original energy and amplitude remained.
Not sure of the effects of a gravitational wave originating from the distance of the LMC but nearby you would be flattened in one direction and streched out in the perpendicular direction.
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