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Guided Gravitational Waves

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By analogy with certain solutions of Maxwell's equations it can be shown that guided gravitational waves are a possibility.

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CAMPBELL, W., MORGAN, T. Guided Gravitational Waves. Nature Physical Science 234, 143–145 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/physci234143a0

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