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Only that in space, it drops even faster: The wavefront carries the same energy, but spread out over ever increasing length/area. For gravitational waves (or radio waves) they form spheres, not circles, and the surface size scales with r^2, not r. (Also water waves are /complicated/)



Right, but LIGO detects wave amplitude, not wave energy, which goes down as 1/r.


Oh, interesting point! I now have to wrap my head around that information transfer normally means energy transfer...




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