Re: Are Gravitational Waves Electromagnetic waves?

From: Ken S. Tucker (dynamics_at_vianet.on.ca)
Date: 02/08/05


Date: 8 Feb 2005 14:00:47 -0800

Mr. Dumse et al...

What troubles me, is if a molecule emits
a photon, then has a lesser rest mass.
 How is the fact that the rest mass of that
gravitating system reduces, and how
can that be communicated to a scale,
or IOW's accelometers about the radiating
mass.
Ken



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