You know the thought experiment when scientists said what woul happen of the sun simply vanished, would Eart leave orbit imidiately or continue to orbit for another 8 min and this discovery proves that the Earth would continue on its orbit for another 8min, since gravity travels with the speed of light.
But gravity waves are caused by super massive objects making riples in the fabric of space like on a canvas.
If the sun simply vanished for any far fetched sci-fi reason, the space that was once bent by the mass of our star would spring back and the Earth would be ripped apart by these ripples. After 8 minutes.
I'm guessing.
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