I think the reason some people might believe this claim is because we’re taught in school that the moon’s gravity causes the tides. I think the reasoning goes, “well if the moon’s gravity can affect the tides, surely it can affect smaller things too”

  • Smokeydope@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is a great point. I remember last year ligo detecting g waves from the merging black holes and experimentally verified this.