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Originally Posted by m1omg
Gravitional radiation loss - in binary massive compact objects it is significant.
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m1omg. Right, and technically all objects in orbit around each other emit it.(even a pair of dancing whooping cranes)...so the word "stable" is relative....kind of like the arbitrary cutoff for radioactive nuclides. At what point do you call them stable? Tidal "locking" is metastable too, and shifts through other resonances. Nothing lasts forever.
pete