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- From: Leigh Palmer <palmer@sfu.ca>
- Subject: Re: The Hole Story
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- In article <STEINLY.92Dec20193619@topaz.ucsc.edu> Steinn Sigurdsson,
- steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu writes:
-
- >I suppose I should read the paper, but there are exact solution of
- >plane gravitational waves for GR. They're literal solution of the
- >Einstein equation.
-
- That's interesting. Are gravitational plane waves susceptible to
- (linear) Fourier decomposition? Do they comprise a spanning set for
- all gravitational wave solutions? If they are not superposable, how
- would one generate a gravitational plane wave?
-
- Do you consider the evidence for the observation of generation of
- gravitational waves to be sufficiently compelling that you would
- *expect* Yu's contention (which I have not read either) to be flawed
- in some way?
-
- Please do not take offense at these questions. The reason I ask them
- in what may seem to be a confrontational manner is that I am more
- interested in the scientific process operating here than in the
- science itself. I respect your devotion to scholarship, and I'm
- trying to see what goes on "under the hood".
-
- Leigh
-