I guess this visualisation is at least fine to imagine how light has to travel through spacetime: http://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2015/09/spacetime_curvature/15576375-1-eng-GB/Spacetime_curvature.jpg <http://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2015/09/spacetime_curvature/15576375-1-eng-GB/Spacetime_curvature.jpg>.
> Am 12.01.2018 um 19:33 schrieb John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com>: > > > > On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 11:06 AM, <agrayson2...@gmail.com > <mailto:agrayson2...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > For me, the problem is space vs spacetime. In LIGO, the recombined waves of > light show offsets due to different path lengths. So this seems to be a > differential distortion of space as the wave passes. So what has time got to > do with the phenomenon? AG > > The gravity wave changes the time it takes for light to go down those > different paths, that's how we know the length in space must have changed > because the one thing that nothing can do, not even a gravity wave, is change > the speed of light in a vacuum. So its best not to think of space and time > as 2 seperate things, there is just spacetime. > > John K Clark > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com > <mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list > <https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
