Gravitational Wave Energy formula needed

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• Dr_Acula Posts: 5,484

  2010-08-13 18:37 edited 2010-08-13 18:37

  This is a bit beyond me but it is absolutely fascinating. There are some formulas here that might be close to what you want http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave but they relate more to orbiting bodies than straight line acceleration.
• william chan Posts: 1,326

  2010-08-15 01:57 edited 2010-08-15 01:57

  My dream was about the nature of inertia....
  
  I now believe that the Inertia of all matter (resisting change in movements)
  is caused by the Gravitational Wave Energy being emitted when the matter is accelerated.
  
  To prove this, I need the formula for the wave power being transmitted when accelerated in a straight line and then try to correlate it back to the force required through the formula
  
  Power = Force x Distance / time.
  
  If the force required matches, it will prove that Inertia is not an inherent nature of matter itself as exhorted by Newton but is caused by gravitational wave power emission.
  
  Anybody wants to help?
• localroger Posts: 3,452

  2010-08-15 06:09 edited 2010-08-15 06:09

  William, I hate to say it but you're barking up a dead tree here. The forces involved with inertia are orders of magnitude larger than those associated with gravity waves (one's first clue might be that it is relatively easy to measure inertia but we're not even sure if we've reliably observed gravity waves).
  
  Also photons do not have mass but they do have momentum, which means they must also have inertia. Since photons do not interact gravitational I think that kind of shoots a hole in your idea too.