Reply to post: Re: Mr. Einstein and Gravitational Radiation

Don't panic... but our fragile world is drifting away from the Sun

Rich 11

Re: Mr. Einstein and Gravitational Radiation

Good point. It turns out that the Earth is losing about 200 joules per second through gravitational radiation, which translates to an orbital decay of about the width of a proton per day.

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