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"We've found ways to visualize warped space-time like never before," says Kip Thorne, Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
On one side of the black hole, the gravitational waves from the spiraling vortexes add together with the waves from the spiraling tendexes. On the other side, the vortex and tendex waves cancel each other out. The result is a burst of waves in one direction, causing the merged hole to recoil.
This is awful presumptuous don't you think? What they should say is that this computer simulation has shown that black hole collisions, if they do actually happen, might produce vortex lines. I do like the doughnut-shaped pattern but I have to ask if this is just another part of the designed program or can this actually happen.
By combining theory with computer simulations,...
...they have discovered that black-hole collisions can produce vortex lines that form a doughnut-shaped pattern
Originally posted by Devino
The premiss in this article is pure speculation and good imagination. Don't forget that black holes are still theoretical. We have observed and recorded phenomena that appear to act like black holes in the center of our galaxy but one question remains. If nothing travels faster than light and nothing can escape the event horizon of a black hole, not even light, then where do these hypothetical gravity waves come from?
This question seems to contradict our understanding of gravity or the behavior of black holes, maybe even both. I think we need to resolve these problems first. All of this so called research is done by a computer with designed software. None of this was actually observed in real space nor is any of it real outside of this particular computer program.
Do gravity waves exist?
So far as we can tell...No.
All efforts to detect gravity waves has turned up null, and we have looked. Laser interferometers have been around for well over 100 years and hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on "ambitious" projects like LIGO and LISA. We either do not know what they are...are looking in the wrong place, time or way...or they do not exist.
We know that gravity exists but does this force make waves? Do black holes exist and if so how does gravity escape to effect other celestial objects? What is the nature of gravity?
I think the fact that we remain ignorant to the answers of these questions goes along way in explaining why we do not have anti-gravity propulsion yet.
So where do you suppose this gravitational force comes from then if not the center of mass?
The gravitational waves are fluctuations in the underlying background spacetime, not something operating inside of it.
Yes, gravitational force is proportionate to the mass. It takes a great amount of mass, like from black holes, to create these waves (theoretically). So the question still remains, "how does this force escape the event horizon of a black hole"? I hope you're not suggesting that the theorized effect is also the cause.
Orthodox theory predicts that gravitational waves are exceptionally difficult to create requiring motion of enormous masses
I disagree with any validation of relativity in this case as I see yet another problem with the theories here. The closer one gets to the center of a black hole the more time dilates. It is a product of gravitational force and with a singularity time would appear to almost stop from our perspective (outside the event horizon). As this happens we should see a spot in space that is nearly frozen. This can't be correct, however, because the theory has these black holes orbiting each other, this is an unsolved relativistic problem. When two objects orbit each other they communicate by way of gravity. So how does this happen and what happened to the time dilation? I really hope we don't need to invoke other dimensions to try and explain this.
The computer programs reflect the predictions of General Relativity, which, other than direct observation of gravitational waves, has been validated in essentially all of its radical predictions.
Thank you for this correction.
(the term "gravity waves" actually means something else in science, a well known phenomenon of fluids in a gravitational field)