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Can gravitational waves be created on very small region of vacuum with quadruple movement of atom or subatomic particles?

nihaljp
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Yes, even tiny objects produce gravitational waves as they move. It's just that their gravitational waves will be way too tiny to measure.

Just consider that the recent gravitational wave detection was caused by 2 black holes weighing 36 and 29 times the mass of our sun. Even those enormous black holes only caused a tiny change a thousand times smaller than the width of a proton. Surely the movement of an atom will cause a far smaller gravitational wave. Too small to detect.

RichS
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A explain this practically, you need to place a spherical mass of 0.5 kilometre diameter at the distance of 10 metre from LIGO sensor to detect its gravitational wave which may read the maximum of 1mm in the reading.

Simple answer would be Yes you can create a gravitational wave with quadruple movement of atom or subatomic particles Theoretically. But our technology is not upto the mark to prove it Practically