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Originally Posted by Atmos
On a more serious note, I have been trying to visualise the gravitational wave from the BB in my head. Not the most "sciencey" approach but I would imagine that the gravitational wave would be long and low amplitude to the point that it may just be a permanent background noise without any detectable wave form.
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Visualizing how a gravitational wave of any amplitude or frequency impacts on space time is a difficult exercise given the wave only acts transversely on particles in space-time.
Then there is the complication with polarization. Gravitational waves like electromagnetic waves can be elliptically polarized.
Here is what a simple gravitational wave looks like.
http://www.einstein-online.info/spot...tional%20waves