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More reporting, for a more pedestrian overview:

In a major discovery, scientists say space-time churns like a choppy sea

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/06/28/gravitatio...

That WaPo article was also discussed [0] on HN yesterday (although most of the comments were about the garbage quality of the reporting).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36514521

Thanks for the link. I had issues with the WaPo article, but that tongue-in-cheek joke with dead-pan delivery wasn't one of them. Fortunately another commenter called it out as a joke as well.

Imagine if we could take advantage of the time-space potential/differences between gravitational areas to "skip" large parts of space. We would have to have a very precise gravity map, but could also get huge gravity potential boost!

Could we? Is there math that supports this? Wouldn't this require taking some, and then not losing it when the wave passes? I don't see much happening with the earth, as it's experiencing them, so I assume the "extraction" process would be significant and unique.

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