Gravity waves are the waves forming on top of atmospheric layers, like ripples in a pond.
Gravitational waves are the spacetime waves generated by black hole mergers and the like.
Very different phenomena.
Gravitational waves are the spacetime waves generated by black hole mergers and the like.
Very different phenomena.
> It’s important to clarify that atmospheric or oceanic gravity waves are not to be confused with gravitational waves, the outward propagating perturbations in spacetime that are associated with cool physics graphics and, apparently, any and all Google searches on either subject.
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But, yeah, gravity waves are closer to the common understanding of the word 'waves'.
Kelvin-Helmholtz instability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin%E2%80%93Helmholtz_insta...
KH Instabilities give rise to gravity waves.
Why choose this somewhat distant similie when ordinary water waves are real gravity waves, and are even more familiar to people than are guitars (let alone the excitations of their strings)?
Perhaps the gravity waves in question are standing waves?