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- Subject: Re: Some physics questions
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- From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
- Date: 5 Nov 92 18:01:48 GMT
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- >jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes:
- >The annihilation would create photons which would have some
- >contribution to the stress-energy tensor, so this wouldn't really
- >work in principle either. Gravitational waves (defined as small
- >perturbations to a background metric) propagate at the speed of
- >light, however. This is a good an answer as I can give to the
- >original question (please, let's not get into the "speed-of-gravity"
- >war again!)
-
- The question asked what would happen if the sun disappeared, to
- which the only good answer is Feynman's "*How* are you going to
- make it disappear?" The answer certainly depends on the details.
- Within the context of current physics, it *can't* just blink out of
- existence, so asking what would happen in that case, given GR,
- is a question with no answer.
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- Matt McIrvin
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