"Gravitational waves" were in the news again recently.
The so-called "gravitational waves" that were predicted by Einstein's Relativity theory have, in recent years, been detected a number of times. The waves can be detected with an arrangement of lasers.
Sometimes things get misnamed. Something that is misnamed is called a "misnomer". One scientific misnomer is "cosmic rays". When energy was discovered coming from space, it was initially presumed that it was radiation. By the time it was found to be particles, rather than radiation, the name "cosmic rays" had already stuck.
But I am thinking that "gravitational waves" is also going to end up being a misnomer.
Referring to the waves as "gravitational" implies mass, since mass is the only thing that produces gravity. But yet great explosions, such as supernova and gamma ray bursts, do not seem to produce "gravitational waves".
A supernova is the sudden explosion of a large star, scattering it's component matter across space. Since the supernova involves a tremendous redistribution of the mass which produces gravity, it seems logical that something like this would be what produces gravitational waves. But, as far as I am aware, gravitational waves have never been found to be produced by a supernova.
Neither does a great impact close by, such as the impact of a meteor on the earth, seem to produce any "gravitational waves". No such waves have been detected coming from a volcanic eruption, even though this involves a sudden redistribution of the mass that is associated with gravity.
The only thing that seems to produce "gravitational waves" is collisions between astronomical bodies that are not composed of ordinary atoms, namely black holes and neutron stars, even though gravity is associated with mass and these collisions may involve nowhere near the mass, or relocation of mass, of a supernova explosion.
Although they may not be as massive as large stars, what is different about neutron stars and black holes is that they are not composed of intact atoms. Both are composed of super-dense matter where the structure of atoms has collapsed.
The vast majority of an atom is empty space. The structure of an atom is sometimes compared with a sports stadium. The nucleus of the atom would be about the size of a strawberry, in the middle of the playing field, if the outer edge of the stadium represented the orbitals of the outermost electrons.
Sometimes the structure of atoms can collapse, due to extreme gravity. A neutron star is, as the name implies, composed of neutrons. The structure of the atoms has collapsed and electrons have been crunched into protons, the process known as K-capture, to form neutrons.
The matter of a neutron star is dense in the extreme. A little bit of it would weigh millions of tons. The matter composing a black hole has collapsed even further than that of a neutron star so that there is no discernible unit, such as neutrons, to the matter of the black hole.
So the term "gravitational waves" implies that mass, and it's dislocation, is what counts in producing the waves. But yet objects made of atoms, including ordinary stars, never seem to produce gravitational waves upon colliding, no matter how massive they are. The waves only seem to result from collisions of super-dense matter, where the structures of the atoms has collapsed due to extreme gravity, such as black holes and neutron stars.
It seems that the two largest stars in the universe wouldn't create any gravitational waves if they collided, but relatively small neutron stars or black holes colliding would. So it is the density of the mass that counts, rather than the mass itself.
Another thing that is interesting is that "gravitational waves" are detected on earth only by lasers, and not by any effects that they have on mass.
Considering my cosmology theory, this actually reveals what space is and how the universe operates.
What is happening is simple, but so far it has not been explained why "gravitational waves" are only produced by collisions of super-dense, rather than super-massive objects.
In my cosmology theory, described in the compound posting on this blog, "The Theory Of Stationary Space", space is composed of an alternating checkerboard pattern of negative and positive electric charges, in multiple dimensions. Matter is strings of like charges, held together against their mutual repulsion by energy. Electromagnetic waves are disturbances in the pattern of charges in space, they seem to be electromagnetic in nature because they disturb the usually-perfect underlying balance in space.
A collision between two astronomical bodies can actually tear the fabric of the negative and positive charges of space. A charge will induce an opposite charge, to balance itself, if there is no charge already next to it. This is what happened in the beginning of the universe, my cosmology theory explains down to a single electric charge.
The rush to fill the empty space resulting from the tear, by inducing new charges so that every charge is surrounded by opposite charges, creates a disturbance in space because opposite charges attract while like charges repel. This disturbance is what creates the waves that are detected on earth.
This means that "Space Waves", or "Electric Waves", would probably be a better name than "gravitational waves", since the waves are actually not related to gravity. This explains why the waves can be detected on earth by lasers, but not by any effect that it has on mass.
This shows, of course, that my cosmology theory must be correct. It is the only way to explain why the waves are caused by density, and not by mass.
The fabric of the alternating electric charges in space is strong, but not infinitely strong. A collision of ordinary stars does not tear it because stars are made of atoms, and the vast majority of an atom is empty space. It is only the super-dense matter of a neutron star or black hole, jarred by a sudden collision, that can tear it.
Also notice that the rotation of a neutron star or black hole does not tear the fabric of space, and create the waves, only a sudden collision. This shows, as explained in my cosmology theory, that nothing is actually moving, except our consciouses along the bundles of strings comprising our bodies and brains at what we perceive as the speed of light. What we perceive as the rotation of an astronomical object is really the strings of matter composing it wrapped around each other. Even the collision is not actually happening now, it has already happened when the universe was formed and our consciousness is only just arriving at it now.
It has never before been explained why so-called "gravitational waves" are not related to mass at all but are only caused by collisions of super-dense objects, where the structure of atoms has collapsed. For a quick explanation of the cosmology theory, see the posting on this blog "In Cosmology, Everything Just Fell Right Into Place":
http://markmeeksideas.blogspot.com/2019/05/in-cosmology-everything-just-fell-right.html?m=0
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