{"id":138476,"date":"2022-04-22T22:03:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T03:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/gravitational-waves-should-permanently-distort-space-time"},"modified":"2022-04-22T22:03:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T03:03:18","slug":"gravitational-waves-should-permanently-distort-space-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/gravitational-waves-should-permanently-distort-space-time","title":{"rendered":"Gravitational Waves Should Permanently Distort Space-Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gravitational-waves-should-permanently-distort-space-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/gravitational-waves-discovered-at-long-last-20160211\/\">first detection of gravitational waves<\/a> in 2016 provided decisive confirmation of Einstein\u2019s general theory of relativity. But another astounding prediction remains unconfirmed: According to general relativity, every gravitational wave should leave an indelible imprint on the structure of space-time. It should permanently strain space, displacing the mirrors of a gravitational wave detector even after the wave has passed.<\/p>\n<p>Since that first detection almost six years ago, physicists have been trying to figure out how to measure this so-called \u201cmemory effect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe memory effect is absolutely a strange, strange phenomenon,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/users.monash.edu.au\/~plasky\/\">Paul Lasky<\/a>, an astrophysicist at Monash University in Australia. \u201cIt\u2019s really deep stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first detection of gravitational waves in 2016 provided decisive confirmation of Einstein\u2019s general theory of relativity. But another astounding prediction remains unconfirmed: According to general relativity, every gravitational wave should leave an indelible imprint on the structure of space-time. It should permanently strain space, displacing the mirrors of a gravitational wave detector even after [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}