Jay Novella
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3,559 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5 Sep
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Now, this collision, this event, releases two types of radiations.
One is light, right?
Of course, it's going to emit light.
You've got these two neutron stars colliding.
You're going to have gamma rays initially flying out
and other light, but it also emits gravitational waves, which we've talked about a bunch of times on the show, and I'm gonna talk about it again.
Whenever you move a mass in curved space, you're gonna have gravitational waves.
The energy from these gravitational waves are gonna be released.
It's basically, it behaves like little ripples in space-time.
These gravitational waves are being emitted, and that energy is coming from somewhere.
It's coming from the orbits of the neutron stars.
So as the gravitational waves fly away, the orbits get closer and closer and closer,
And we can detect.
We can detect these gravitational waves on the Earth.
So we see this happening.
Like, here we go.
You know, they've got these neutron stars that are going to collide.
And it is amazing because this distortion, this ripple in space-time, is so tiny that it distorts space by one ten thousandth the diameter of a proton.
And we can detect this.
It's just mind-boggling what we can do at this point.
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