Gravitational waves arises when mass is rotating in another mass'orbital, in explosions and of course in case of colliding black holes. But are they also created when mass is moving and speeding because the space itself is expanding? And is there also a kind of 'red-shifting' of the waves because they are moving away?
It would seem that LIGO measures wibbles in the metric (not manifold) of spacetime:    It would seem that the expansion of the universe is an expansion of the metric of spacetime:    Imagine for a moment that LIGO is not an interferometer. (So, it just plain times speed changes, rather than using phase shift of orthogonal directions.)  If the ends of one of the arms was indeed receding away from each other, at a speed consistent with the expansion of the universe, is the sensitivity of real-world LIGO of the needed sensitivity of a machine which could measure that shift?  On other words: ideally I'd like to know these two meters:  (A) The left arm of LIGO is about 4km. It was stretched/shrunk (a few times) for roughly .01 seconds by the gravitational wave.  How many meters was it stretched/shrunk in .01 seconds?  (B) Assuming the same abstract LIGO arm was affectable and affected by the expansion of the Universe. How many meters is it stretch/shrunk every .01 seconds?    Note - of course, an interferometer is an ingenious device to measure extremely small changes in speed - assuming the changes are orthogonal. Of course, an interferometer, per se, can't at all measure the expansion of the universe since that is uniform in both directions. The sense of my question is, can something that measures distance changes > as accurately as &lt; the LIGO does, measure the expansion of the universe?  How big or small is the ongoing expansion of the universe compared to the wibble from the black hole system in question?
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Sam developed an annual sweepstakes promotion entitled “The Free Gas Punt Return Game”.    Do I need a comma after entitled or not? Reading ODBC connection using QGIS? I have a co-worker who manages a large MS Access database that contains X &amp; Y fields for various locations he tracks.  We have previously exported the data to CSV and used the QGIS Delimited Text Plugin to plot the locations.  We would now like to be plot this data directly in QGIS by connecting to the MS Access db via an ODBC connection (as opposed to export to CSV).   Can QGIS consume the data from the ODBC connection to plot the X-Y locations? Can it be "live linked" to the ODBC connection so that when a project is re-opened, the layer "replots" all old and newly added locations dynamically (as opposed to exporting to shapefile, which would create a snapshot in time)? Can you create tabular ODBC connections that can be joined to spatial tables within QGIS?   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I have tried so far: $z=x+yi$ and then I get $1 \leq x^2+y^2 \leq 4$ and $ |y|&lt;x$. How can I solve this?