These are my following questions for Professor Gonzalez:
1. Could gravitational waves be theoretically considered as being composed of lumps of gravitons, and if so, could graviton particles be detected within a gravitational wave?
2. If the idea that dark matter can form in clumps is correct, when two such clumps of dark matter collide, shouldn’t they also produce gravitational waves and if so — is there anything about such waves that would allude to the fact that the collision was produced by dark matter particles?
3. Could a gravitational wave be thought of as a set of perpendicular tendex and vortex lines (especially in black hole collisions), one plane of lines stretches everything along its axis while the other plane compresses everything along its axis, wouldn’t this idea also explain the way in which gravitational waves distort objects as they pass through them? (For anyone interested: https://www.science20.com/news_articles/tendex_and_vortex_lines_new_way_visualize_warped_space_and_time-78171)
Thank you so much for this wonderful course, I really learned a lot about astrophysics and gravitational waves as well as the incredible technological achievement needed to detect them.