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Originally Posted by bojan
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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this is a bit old, but may be useful summary of gravitational wave energy?
http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/E...hn/boughn.html
It seems to be an exceptionally inefficient way to transfer energy and only viable when the source is capable of generating vast amounts of energy in a short time - such as the black hole merger where 3 solar masses were converted to GWs in a fraction of a second.