Ok, if matter bends space, what happens to the space that you are traveling through? Does it automatically revert back to its former self when you leave it or do you leave a wake behind you?
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At the moment we don't know the speed at which gravity propagates or if it is instantaneous. If it does have a finite speed then you will leave a gravitational wake but i will be simplified for two reasons:
Gravity does not reflect refract or diffract so it will be a simple "curve" of gravitational potential.
Also i think it would be more like a continuous field rather than a series of waves.
Gravity does not reflect refract or diffract so it will be a simple "curve" of gravitational potential.
Also i think it would be more like a continuous field rather than a series of waves.
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Theoretically, Yes. - A 'gravitational wave of 'momentary attraction,
proportional to your mass, decreasein with the square of the distance from your 'track',
and spreading at 'C'.
The problem is, we as yet have no detector sensitive enough to register such a wave,
and we've been trying .... hard.
proportional to your mass, decreasein with the square of the distance from your 'track',
and spreading at 'C'.
The problem is, we as yet have no detector sensitive enough to register such a wave,
and we've been trying .... hard.
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a boat wake is a wave disturbance in liquid water
No solids or liquids in space
IF the rocket is firing it leaves a train of exhaust going in the opposite direction
No solids or liquids in space
IF the rocket is firing it leaves a train of exhaust going in the opposite direction
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Unless you are a singularity, all that happens is a dimple within space-time as you move through it..
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Hopefully that would be better then leaving a sleep!
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Yes, You do create a bow shock wave of compressed gas and dust behind when you move at a sufficiently high velocity through space. Sauce time IS NOT compressed in the bow shake wave. It is MATTER that is compressed by pressure by an object moving through it.
'...Observing stellar bow shocks
Authors: A.C. Sparavigna, R. Marazzato
(Submitted on 10 May 2010)
Abstract: For stars, the bow shock is typically the boundary between their stellar wind and the interstellar medium. Named for the wave made by a ship as it moves through water, the bow shock wave can be created in the space when two streams of gas collide. The space is actually filled with the interstellar medium consisting of tenuous gas and dust. Stars are emitting a flow called stellar wind. Stellar wind eventually bumps into the interstellar medium, creating an interface where the physical conditions such as density and pressure change dramatically, possibly giving rise to a shock wave. Here we discuss some literature on stellar bow shocks and show observations of some of them, enhanced by image processing techniques, in particular by the recently proposed AstroFracTool software.
Comments: Keywords: Shock Waves, Astronomy, Image Processing
Subjects: Space Physics (physics.space-ph); Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)
Cite as: arXiv:1005.1527v1 [physics.space-ph]
Submission history
From: Amelia Carolina Sparavigna [view email]
[v1] Mon, 10 May 2010 12:59:29 GMT (974kb)..."
http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.1527
http://science.pppst.com/sound.html
http://web.mit.edu/~alexrod7/www/mites/g…
.
'...Observing stellar bow shocks
Authors: A.C. Sparavigna, R. Marazzato
(Submitted on 10 May 2010)
Abstract: For stars, the bow shock is typically the boundary between their stellar wind and the interstellar medium. Named for the wave made by a ship as it moves through water, the bow shock wave can be created in the space when two streams of gas collide. The space is actually filled with the interstellar medium consisting of tenuous gas and dust. Stars are emitting a flow called stellar wind. Stellar wind eventually bumps into the interstellar medium, creating an interface where the physical conditions such as density and pressure change dramatically, possibly giving rise to a shock wave. Here we discuss some literature on stellar bow shocks and show observations of some of them, enhanced by image processing techniques, in particular by the recently proposed AstroFracTool software.
Comments: Keywords: Shock Waves, Astronomy, Image Processing
Subjects: Space Physics (physics.space-ph); Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)
Cite as: arXiv:1005.1527v1 [physics.space-ph]
Submission history
From: Amelia Carolina Sparavigna [view email]
[v1] Mon, 10 May 2010 12:59:29 GMT (974kb)..."
http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.1527
http://science.pppst.com/sound.html
http://web.mit.edu/~alexrod7/www/mites/g…
.