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Good, this is a necessary thing to get back up and running again. Thanks for the update alerts, will subscribe and see what's stirring in the galactic 'hood.

Question though - do gravitational waves diminish significantly as a function of distance or intervening mass?



I think their amplitude falls as 1/r, their power falls as 1/r^2. Just a layman but I imagine the amplitude is the relevant part here?



At distance it's an inverse square law I believe




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