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I have the same question as stated below - will we feel the gravitational wave when these two black holes collide, and how would it feel?:

https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/33228/is-there-a-way-to-calculate-how-much-damage-black-hole-merger-shockwaves-inflict

and I looked also here. I understand soft tissue moving differently than bone, but the whole timeshift thing I definitely don't understand: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/338912/how-would-a-passing-gravitational-wave-look-or-feel

Is there a short-er answer to, will we feel it and how will we feel it?

1 posted on 11/30/2021 9:11:05 PM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Well that’s going to suck.


2 posted on 11/30/2021 9:13:05 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: blueplum

Considering it’s minimally 800 years from happening, no, I don’t think any of us will feel it.


3 posted on 11/30/2021 9:13:52 PM PST by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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To: blueplum

Two black holes that are 1,600 Light years away from each other are so far apart from one another that when they do collide, if ever, no one will be around to give a 5hit.


4 posted on 11/30/2021 9:15:56 PM PST by WMarshal ("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
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To: blueplum

Watch me care! Here goes...


5 posted on 11/30/2021 9:17:02 PM PST by sonova (That's what I always say sometimes.)
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To: blueplum

Bronco Bama and Big Mike not getting along?


6 posted on 11/30/2021 9:19:37 PM PST by TigersEye (Ray Epps didn't kill himself.)
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Not only will we not feel it, but the technology to even detect these gravitational waves is barely within our ability. The actual gravitational wave distortion from this distance will be less than the size of a single proton.


7 posted on 11/30/2021 9:21:13 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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8 posted on 11/30/2021 9:22:10 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: blueplum

So, didn’t that collision already happen about 89 million years ago?


9 posted on 11/30/2021 9:24:25 PM PST by PTBAA
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They are 89 million light years away from us. Any gravitational waves we might feel will be 89 million years in the future.


10 posted on 11/30/2021 9:25:35 PM PST by Cronos ( One cannot desire freedom from the Cross, especially when one is especially chosen for the cross)
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Cant read the article because it’s partly covered up by an ad. Anyone else having that problem?


13 posted on 11/30/2021 9:36:56 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: blueplum

Just because the holes are black doesn’t mean anything bad will happen, sheesh!

Get ovah uz white privrage!!


18 posted on 11/30/2021 10:53:31 PM PST by griffin
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To: blueplum

89 million light-years away in another galaxy? The title is misleading.


20 posted on 11/30/2021 11:38:55 PM PST by Cyclops08
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No worries, the Ohmicron variant will kill us all long before the black holes will.


22 posted on 12/01/2021 2:20:57 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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Named L-a [the dash don’t be silent] and Shawkneekwa, a cloud of hair extensions and fake fingernails is expected to result when the 2 tangle.


23 posted on 12/01/2021 2:43:51 AM PST by Adder (Proud member of the FJB/LGB community.)
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To: blueplum

If you keep getting all the jabs they want for you, you won’t feel a thing...


24 posted on 12/01/2021 3:58:19 AM PST by trebb (Fight like your life and future depends on it - because they do.)
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To: blueplum

I hope they have insurance.


25 posted on 12/01/2021 4:00:10 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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On Verge of Collision

Since we are seeing the state of things 89 million years ago, that "verge" is long in the distant past.

26 posted on 12/01/2021 5:11:16 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: blueplum
"will we feel it and how will we feel it?"

Gravity strains your body. When you stand up, your body is shorter than when you are lying down. Strain is measured in how many inches you shrink compared with how many inches tall you are. In most things the shrinkage is quite small, so strain is often measured in micro-inches per inch of length.

A micro inch is a millionth of an inch. The smallest measurable strain using conventional techniques is about one micro-inch per inch. That's one inch per million inches, or one inch in 17 miles. That, in itself is something you would never feel. If you were 70 inches tall and shrank that amount, you would shrink about 0.0001 - a tenth of a thousandth of an inch. That's less than one tenth the thickness of a human hair.

Gravity waves are many orders of magnitude smaller than that. One analogy places the gravity wave sensitivity detectors as sensitive to stretching the distance from the earth to the sun by an amount equal to the diameter of a hydrogen atom. You won't feel that!

27 posted on 12/01/2021 5:14:08 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Capitalism is what happens when you leave people alone.)
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No, we won’t feel it. We will have died move that 1,500 years before it happens.


28 posted on 12/01/2021 6:42:13 AM PST by GingisK
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To: blueplum

Typical stupid reporting...
These black holes WERE that close 89 million years ago...
Who knows what their situation is now...
Maybe they should point their scopes towards Chicago if they want to observe “current” black hole events...


31 posted on 12/01/2021 12:24:22 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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