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What would happen if a gravitational wave hits me? Will it affect me or will something else happen?

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    Watch out! I think there's one coming right now. – WillO Apr 02 '16 at 15:00
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    Related and/or duplicates: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/207535/ and http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/237281/ – Kyle Kanos Apr 03 '16 at 21:39
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    @WillO haha, now that it's been like 5 years since I asked this question and have gained much more knowledge of physics than at that time, I find both your comment and the question funny XD – aymusbond Oct 30 '20 at 19:20
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    @aymusbond: :) :) – WillO Oct 30 '20 at 19:57

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All depends on its intensity. In fact it will strech you in one direction and press you in the other. In 99,9999..% of cases you will never notice that it is passed trhough you since it interacts with you very very very very weakly. Actually right now in this very moment thousands or even billions of gravitational waves reached you coming from all over the universe. So in short - it would happen almost nothing.

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