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but the same waves could be reproduced without gravity in an appropriate accelerating frame (e.g. in a rotating body at a Lagrange point) so gravity isn't _essential_, whereas it is for gravitational waves


Gravity is the result of an appropriately accelerating frame (i.e. the curvature of spacetime).




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