You might not really feel it, however at each single second you’re being ever-so-slightly stretched and squeezed by ripples in space-time. These ripples, known as gravitational waves, are attributable to the actions of huge objects like black holes, and researchers have detected them warping Earth by minuscule quantities. But what in the event that they warped Earth by non-minuscule quantities?
In this episode of Dead Planets Society, our hosts Chelsea Whyte and Leah Crane get inquisitive about whether or not we might make a gravitational wave that will be sturdy sufficient to really feel – and what that is perhaps like – and even sturdy sufficient to rip apart a planet. This means manipulating black holes as a result of they’re the densest objects within the universe, so they’re essentially the most environment friendly gravitational wave machines on the market.
But it isn’t as straightforward as simply placing a pair of black holes subsequent to the planet and smashing them collectively, as a result of the gravity from the black holes would destroy the planet no matter any waves concerned. Gravitational wave researcher Christopher Berry joins Leah and Chelsea this episode to speak about tuning the frequency of gravitational waves to vibrate the entire planet apart, whether or not it could be potential to disassemble the entire photo voltaic system with gravitational waves and find out how to create a lethal black gap symphony that would beam its cosmic music throughout the universe.
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish concepts about find out how to tinker with the cosmos – from punching a gap in a planet to unifying the asteroid belt – and topics them to the legal guidelines of physics to see how they fare.
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