When I say they 'orbit each other' of course I meant that the Earth goes around the Sun and the Sun wobbles a bit. (See more in the Wikipedia article about gravitational waves.)
You could run a few light bulbs on that much power, but that is all.
Friday, 10 May 2013
200W from The Earth
200 watts! That is the amount of energy that the Earth/Sun system is emitting as gravitational energy as they orbit each other - according to Einstein's theories of relativity.
When I say they 'orbit each other' of course I meant that the Earth goes around the Sun and the Sun wobbles a bit. (See more in the Wikipedia article about gravitational waves.)
You could run a few light bulbs on that much power, but that is all.
When I say they 'orbit each other' of course I meant that the Earth goes around the Sun and the Sun wobbles a bit. (See more in the Wikipedia article about gravitational waves.)
You could run a few light bulbs on that much power, but that is all.
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